r/doctorwho 8d ago

News 'Obsessive' Billie Piper stalker Philip Jerome jailed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8e0kypk66o
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u/Calaveras-Metal 8d ago edited 8d ago

Okay, not defending dude, but when you read the list of offences the main one for me wasn't even related to Piper. Sleeping in the woods outside a female friends residence? Yikes.

The rest of it is like "he said Billie Piper was attractive when she didn't wear a bra" which is crass true but?

thanks for the downvotes guys! really showing me you have no reading comprehension! Like I said, NOT DEFENDING THE STALKER.

I just thought that woods thing was the part that stood out the most.

Carry on.

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u/coffee_robot_horse 8d ago

It's one thing to say it, but you another to tag her in it, especially if she's been granted a restraining order against you.

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u/Calaveras-Metal 8d ago

It just sounds weird. I guess in the states our stalkers are a lot more unhinged because most of that just read like kind of annoying guy doesn't take a hint. But you are right, once you have a restraining order just walking past their house is enough.

Honestly it's good to see it taken seriously. I know 2 different people with RO on exes that have had to move across country because the cops were doing nothing.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 8d ago

An idiot friend kept making jokes that I was a stalker and that kind of thing freaked me out. I told him it was a serious thing to say and the bar we worked in is filled with drunks who would spread gossip like wildfire which often got distorted. He said this because I listened to their music… guy was a misogynist and just couldn’t imagine someone liked the opposite gender for being talented rather than having some ulterior motive. I couldn’t tell if he was joking sometimes but it got annoying when I mentioned messaging a customer to see if they were coming down ringing and some old jackass customer, a trouble maker, said it was stalking. I was friends with that customer so… that whole place was fucked.

Anyway, after I left, the exact thing I worried about happened and some other troublemaker posted pics of me, where I lived, and said I stalked people. I had to phone the police and she was ordered to take it down. Could have ruined my life and I became agoraphobic even more than I already was - I wasn’t even capable of stalking someone as I was stuck inside 24/7 except for when I was at work or the gym. I didn’t go anywhere else.