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In an interview with ITV News, Myleene Klass spoke about the impact of being stalked, explaining that she didn’t know who she had to be scared of
Myleene Klass has spoken of her “terror” after she was told by police her stalking ordeal could have “proved fatal”.
In her first interview since the verdict, Klass told ITV News the experience left her “looking over her shoulder” and that “the far-reaching ripples of fear go a long way”.
On Tuesday, 61-year-old Peter Windsor was found guilty of stalking after he sent the TV and radio star handcuffs, a police uniform and “disturbing” unwanted letters.
Windsor also sent an air pistol, which was intercepted by Royal Mail and never opened by Klass.
Speaking to ITV News, Klass said: “When the police finally did go to my stalker’s house, they found a map of how to get to me. They found gloves, binoculars.”
She added that she “wished” she could speak about the “extent of the items” she received, explaining that some were “deemed so disturbing for public consumption” that the judge decided not to show them.
When asked if she had seen these items herself, she said: “I very much saw the items in question. All I can say is that they were of a sexually violent nature.”
Klass also said she was told by a police officer that the air pistol sent by Windsor could have proved fatal, adding that it was a “lifesaver” that the package was unopened.
“As the police have pointed out, the fact that the gun wasn’t opened is a literal lifesaver, because whilst it was an air pistol at six foot, it’s still fatal,” she said.
“And this is why the police took it so seriously.
“It was in a parcel. Think of the hands that would have touched that parcel from the post office all the way through to my colleagues at work, through to the person delivering the parcel, the girls at reception, who work at the reception where I work.
“All I’ve done is play through how many people would have held the box with the gun in it before it got to me.”
As she did not know the identity of her stalker, Klass told ITV News she “didn’t know who [she] had to be scared of”.
“I didn’t know who I had to be scared of”: Myleene Klass spoke to ITV News about the impact of being stalked
“You’re always looking over your shoulder. You have to remember I didn’t know what my stalker looked like,” she said.
“So until his photo was released yesterday, I had no idea because my evidence was given behind a screen.
“He knew what I looked like. I didn’t know what he looked like.
“I didn’t know who I had to be scared of.”
She said she didn’t let her children “open a single parcel” one Christmas, because police agreed they “had to be extremely careful”.
As a consequence of the stalking, as well as intruders breaking into her property on two separate occasions, Klass says he has had to increase her security.
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“It’s like literally Fort Knox now. We live in Alcatraz now,” she told ITV News.
“I have to be careful. I don’t want to become my own prisoner. I certainly don’t want that for my family.
“But as I explained in court, a woman, before she even leaves the house or before she returns home, our experience of what it’s like to look after ourselves and keep ourselves safe, we are forever risk assessing.
“We know who’s walking behind us. We have our keys ready coming out of our bag. We message our girlfriends. Did you get home? We are relentless in our pursuit of making sure that our loved ones are safe.
“Whereas I do believe most men on the whole can just leave the house and walk back in.”
“It’s literally like Fort Knox now”: Myleene Klass says she has increased her security since being stalked
Jurors also convicted Windsor of stalking Klass’s Classic FM colleague Katie Breathwick by sending her details of a DIY will-writing kit, gifts and around 100 letters.
Windsor had denied stalking both Klass and Breathwick by sending items to the radio station’s central London studios between March 2020 and August 2024.
He has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and claimed to be not guilty by reason of insanity.
During the trial, it emerged Windsor was arrested but not prosecuted after sending a letter in October 2020 to then-Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon, which he said had been “signed in blood” and which “pledged his soul to Satan”.
He told jurors the letter was “just a joke” and that he had sent parcels and letters to the radio presenters as a “pretend weird” acting performance.
Windsor will be sentenced next month and will likely face either a prison sentence or a hospital order.
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