A man has been found guilty of stalking a celebrity from Norfolk.
Peter Windsor, 61, has been on trial accused of stalking Myleene Klass.
Klass, who is from Gorleston and shot to fame as part of the music group Hear'Say, told Birmingham Crown Court last week that she felt "sheer terror" when Windsor mailed her items, including an air pistol, handcuffs, a police uniform and "disturbing" unwanted letters.
The items were sent to Classic FM, where she works as a presenter, and the station's security team first informed her they had been receiving packages last August.
In September, a police constable told her that an air gun had been intercepted.
Klass, 47, told the court: “He said to me that whilst the gun wasn’t necessary for a licence in this country, at such close proximity right up to 6ft, it could prove fatal and police took it very seriously.
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“I was extremely shocked because suddenly it felt extremely real.
"It’s a gun in a box with my name on it.”
The court also heard how he stalked Klass' Classic FM colleague Katie Breathwick by sending her details of a DIY will-writing kit and other “raving” and “unhinged” mail.
In one letter, he said he wanted to go paddling in a lake with both women while drinking champagne.
They both became upset during the evidence.
Windsor, 61, of Mary Road, Stechford, Birmingham, had denied stalking both Klass and Breathwick by sending the items to Classic FM’s central London studios between March 2020 and August 2024.
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He has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and claimed to be not guilty by reason of insanity.
Jurors reached their unanimous guilty verdicts on Tuesday after deliberating for four hours and eight minutes over two days.
Judge Tom Rochford told Windsor, who has been on remand throughout his trial, that the options for his sentencing next month include prison or two types of hospital orders.
Adjourning the case until sentencing at Warwick Crown Court, Judge Rochford said the offences had “clearly been a traumatic experience” for both complainants.
In his closing speech to the jury on Monday, defence barrister Philip Brunt said Windsor had been diagnosed for the past 30 years with paranoid schizophrenia and had included his name and address in the correspondence.
Windsor, who has used multiple names including Peter Szymanski and changed his surname to its current form by deed poll, had not followed anyone and was not told by anyone to stop sending letters, Mr Brunt added.
In a statement posted on Instagram following the guilty verdicts, Klass thanked the jury, the police officer in charge of the case and the judge who presided at Windsor’s trial, writing: “After a horrific year, my family and I finally have peace.”
She also thanked prosecutor Timothy Sapwell, fellow presenter Breathwick, Classic FM and her agent for their “love and support” during the proceedings.
