Serial Stalker Elliot Fogel Jailed For The THIRD Time After Harassing Anti-stalking Campaigner For More Than 12 Years

A former television producer who obsessively stalked a woman for more than 12 years has been jailed for a third time.

Elliot Fogel, 40, has now been prosecuted five times for harassing Claire Waxman and received three jail sentences, as well as a suspended sentence and a community order.

The former freelance producer for Sky Sports was found guilty of breaching the order by issuing a libel claim against Ms Waxman.

Fogel, of Stanway Gardens, Edgware, was today sentenced to three years and six months imprisonment following Monday's verdict at Harrow Crown Court.

He was also convicted on Monday of a second count of breaking the order by storing information about her.

His victim, 38-year-old Ms Waxman, has become a prominent anti-stalking campaigner and now runs the Voice 4 Victimscampaign.

She described the outcome of the case was "important" because it means the abuse of the courts by stalkers is being recognised.

She said: "My family and I have had to endure 12 years of persistent stalking and we just wish that Fogel would desist so that we can lead a normal life.

"Today’s verdict and sentence is important for all stalking victims, as it shows them that the pattern of stalking is finally being recognised and understood and taken seriously.

"It also gives a message to stalkers that they do not have an absolute right to access the civil courts to bring malicious and vexatious complaints against their victims."

Fogel was pursuing a libel case against Ms Waxman as a means of harassing her, police said. He claimed Ms Waxman had defamed him in interviews.

Prosecutor Rufus D'Cruz told the court that Fogel’s case was "a dishonest and devious means to continue a campaign of harassment by manipulating the civil court process and bringing a bogus and baseless action to cause Ms Waxman and her family distress and alarm".

He previously brought two other civil actions against Ms Waxman, but is now barred from issuing legal proceedings against her under the conditions of his restraining order, without the permission of a judge.

DC Daniel Candler said: "I am very pleased with the verdict of the jury who were able to see though Elliot Fogel's cynical attempts to subvert the civil judicial system in order to continue his 12-year campaign of harassment against Mrs Waxman.

"We all hope though that this will finally mark the end of his offending."

Culled from Standard.co.uk

Thank God we dont have stalkers like this in Nigeria oooh...ah ah!