Corrie star Nicola Thorp was terrorised by a stalker for two years – blasting the police for allowing him to stay anonymous for month.
The actress, 34, who played Nicola Rubinstein on the soap, was sent a string of chilling messages by Ravinderjit Dhillon online that included threats to rape and choke her.
It left her terrified she would be attacked in the street.
Nicola said: “You want to know if you’re going to be able to take care of yourself if he was to approach you in the street. That was the big thing.
“My main question was, ‘Would he be able to carry me?’ and that’s devastating.
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“Because with these kinds of crimes, when he’s kept anonymous, they become every single person that you meet.
“He was every guy at a bus stop. He was the person at work who looked at me funny. He was the guy in the supermarket. He just became everybody.”
Police investigated but refused to tell Nicola the identity of her stalker.
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In an interview on Good Morning Britain, she recalled: “They said, ‘We can’t tell you’. I asked, ‘But where does he live, roughly?’ They said, ‘We can’t tell you.’
“For months, I kept begging them, ‘Please, can I just see a photograph of him or his name?’”
It meant when Nicola attended court to see him face justice, she ended up standing next to him.
She said: “It was a few weeks ago at his sentencing that I turned up to court.
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“You have to queue before you go inside and you go through security. You give your name to the security guard as you’re going through.
“I was actually stood behind him in the queue. He gave his name to the security guard at which point I just completely froze because that was him. That’s the man who had harassed and stalked me since 2018. And he was right there in front of me.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
