What colour will Emily Maitlis eventually end on?

bit of a slag

18 January 2018



TV presenter Emily Maitlis says she fears her stalker will never stop harassing her.

Two days after a former friend was jailed for breaching a restraining order, the Newsnight presenter compared living with two decades of harassment to having a chronic illness.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live's Emma Barnett Show, she said it had had a devastating impact on her family.

"You turn into this person who shouts at your kids for the wrong thing."

She also described her frustrations with the legal system and called for a new approach to treating stalkers.

On Tuesday, Edward Vines was jailed for 45 months for breaching a restraining order, having first been convicted of harassing Maitlis in 2002.
'Jumpy' and 'stressful'

Maitlis said in the radio interview, broadcast on the Emma Barnett Show, that the thought of her stalker was ever-present.

"It just makes you jumpy - and that's stressful and it's tiring and it's time-consuming.

"Your head is somewhere else and you're having to think about things that are just ludicrous, like 'how do you get in and out of your front door' and 'how are they getting back from school?'

"It's not that you think everyone is out to kill you. You recognise it as a paranoia. But it doesn't make it any easier.

"This has literally been going on for 20 years. It feels like sort of a chronic illness.

"It's not that I ever believe it will stop or he will stop, or the system will manage to prevent it properly."
Edward Vines was issued with an indefinite restraining order in 2009

The journalist first met Vines, from Oxford, when they were students at Cambridge University.

Damn, would of been almost funny if I'd got the poast in a few seconds earlier.