The stalker of BBC Radio 1 DJ Gilles Peterson has been sentenced to 26 weeks in jail and slapped with an indefinite restraining order.
Sarah Jayne Rook, 44, was sentenced today at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court in London.
She had pleaded not guilty to stalking, racially aggravated harassment as well as another charge of non-aggravated harassment.
However she was convicted of stalking Gilles, real last name Moehrle, by District Judge Louisa Cieciora, who found the harassment against his wife Mrs Moehrle to be racially aggravated.
Sarah was convicted of racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress against PC Karlene Richards after calling her a “f***ing n****” after her arrest on March 16.
Sarah Jane Rook was sentenced to 26 weeks in jail and given an indefinite restraining order (Image: LinkedIn)
At a previous hearing, Gilles, 55, explained that Sarah had turned up at his north London home and hurled abuse at him and his family.
He told the court that the abuse included “all kinds of stuff from ‘paedophile’ to ‘Hiroshima’ to ‘rapist’ – all very extreme words that were shouted at [his] house”.
The radio DJ also found a ripped up photo of himself on the windscreen of his car.
Gilles detailed the verbal abuse Sarah had shouted at him and his family (Image: PA)
He was left shaken by a tweet sent to him while he was on-air, which read “f***ing kill him”, too.
In a 30-minute long verbal attack on February 15, Sarah shouted expletives outside Gilles’ family home and called his wife Atsuko a “Hiroshima b***”.
During a separate occasion, Gilles recalled he felt “very threatened” as she shouted obscenities outside his studio.
Sarah said “it’s probably a waste of an exercise, to be honest” when she was asked whether she would like to give evidence.
She had insisted in a letter to the court that she was doing a “freelance investigation” into the history of jazz music.
Written in third person, it read: “She is unsure why Mr Peterson has embarked on this legal action but she hopes to see release to continue her book and investigative journalism.”
District Judge Cieciora said Sarah had engaged in a “campaign against Mr Moehrle” while passing judgement after the guilty verdict.
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