Sky's Best News Anchor I first came across Kay Burley after Victoria Bird [ Jonathan's sister] had arranged a Sky Interview for me 8 years ago. The Sky Team came to my family's house and started to film. I think this was sometime in April 2000 in response to the 2nd April 2000 Sunday Times article about the government helping elderly people to die due to rationing. Mark Macaskill was one of the journalists at the Sunday Times and as everyone knows from his conduct in the Dr Scot Jnr case, he is pretty annoying and ineffective. Kay Burley though is completely different. She has the greatest respect for those she interviews. She is warm, friendly and approachable.
Kay interviewed me in detail. Sky footage will show that it was the only TV News programme that featured the negligence of the British Medical Association. Kay Burley was the only news anchor to ask me the important questions related to whistleblowing. I appreciated this as the rest of the media treated me like some junior insignificant whistleblower whose credibility could be questioned. I believe I had been brow beaten considerably during the year 2000. I had been unemployed for long periods, I didn't know what I was going to do next and I had nearly given up. Kay Burley's interview was to the point. Indeed, I recall that after that interview, I decided I was going to keep going, keep fighting and never give up. Essentially, it was nice not to be patronised by a reporter.
Kay interviewed me in detail. Sky footage will show that it was the only TV News programme that featured the negligence of the British Medical Association. Kay Burley was the only news anchor to ask me the important questions related to whistleblowing. I appreciated this as the rest of the media treated me like some junior insignificant whistleblower whose credibility could be questioned. I believe I had been brow beaten considerably during the year 2000. I had been unemployed for long periods, I didn't know what I was going to do next and I had nearly given up. Kay Burley's interview was to the point. Indeed, I recall that after that interview, I decided I was going to keep going, keep fighting and never give up. Essentially, it was nice not to be patronised by a reporter.
I was therefore saddened to hear of Kay Burley's predicament. Kay collapsed sometime ago and she is very concerned about Barry George stalking her. The police have been involved.
Having been the victim of a cyberstalker by the name of Brian Morgan for some considerable time - approximately one year, I developed some good coping strategies. Morgan is of course a Welsh journalist who wrote some "sick" messages threatening me with many things. including an IOP hearing at the GMC. They were instrumental in harassing me via the GMC, ensuring my job was lost and continued to send me disgusting messages, websites were set up with my home address and disgusting images. This is just a summary. Morgan denies writing these messages of course but we got him bang to rights on his IP address. His associates in cyberstalking were Penny Mellor and Paul Heathcote. The primary aim was to dissuade us from writing positive material on David Southall. The trio did not want the media to see that they had collectively been hoodwinking them for a number of years. Mellor had provided fictional tales of David Southall. She even admitted to feeding the media "soundbites". I believe many underestimate the effect of cyberstalking in relation to the David Southall case. The expert report on the subject cited this as highly dangerous "group cyberstalking". Nevertheless, I am not a weak wall flower and I fight back. Brian Morgan's actions has caused his own personal life to revolve in turmoil. I have no sympathy for him at all and I am a believer in Karma. If the death penalty was legal in the UK, I believe cyberstalkers like him should be subject to it. I would have no sympathy for him at all had he been stuck on Death Row in the US today. The irony is, I don't believe in the death penalty but in my cyberstalkers case, I would have no objection to it. I am of the view that stalkers should be thrown to the justice system for life.
The risk of covering stories [ whether its us] or mainstream news, is that there will be stalkers. with variable motives. Kay Burley finds herself in a difficult predicament and I hope it resolves sooner rather than later. Indeed, I hope the police do their job well.
The main issue about stalkers is their need for power and control. I know my group cyberstalkers assumed that they would "get one up on me". Of course, they were messing with an ex shrink.
The British Crime Survey states that 1 in 10 women are stalked. Some more detail on stalkers is available here. Further material is presented in the Psychiatric Times. This has some interesting self help guides. Also here are some self help books.
So I wish Kay Burley well and hope she recovers and returns back to Sky News. I have a great deal of sympathy for her predicament having experienced a similar situation. I have emailed my contact at Sky News this morning to wish her well. She is a great news anchor - one of the best.
I have no idea what Mr George's problem is but perhaps someone needs to see about getting him some psychological help or alternatively asking a psychiatrist to assess the "danger" he poses. I am sure the police can keep him away from Kay.
Actually, Sky News isn't the same without Kay - I think a lot of medics will agree with that. I hope she recovers from this traumatic time and we all hope to see her back at the news desk soon.
Having been the victim of a cyberstalker by the name of Brian Morgan for some considerable time - approximately one year, I developed some good coping strategies. Morgan is of course a Welsh journalist who wrote some "sick" messages threatening me with many things. including an IOP hearing at the GMC. They were instrumental in harassing me via the GMC, ensuring my job was lost and continued to send me disgusting messages, websites were set up with my home address and disgusting images. This is just a summary. Morgan denies writing these messages of course but we got him bang to rights on his IP address. His associates in cyberstalking were Penny Mellor and Paul Heathcote. The primary aim was to dissuade us from writing positive material on David Southall. The trio did not want the media to see that they had collectively been hoodwinking them for a number of years. Mellor had provided fictional tales of David Southall. She even admitted to feeding the media "soundbites". I believe many underestimate the effect of cyberstalking in relation to the David Southall case. The expert report on the subject cited this as highly dangerous "group cyberstalking". Nevertheless, I am not a weak wall flower and I fight back. Brian Morgan's actions has caused his own personal life to revolve in turmoil. I have no sympathy for him at all and I am a believer in Karma. If the death penalty was legal in the UK, I believe cyberstalkers like him should be subject to it. I would have no sympathy for him at all had he been stuck on Death Row in the US today. The irony is, I don't believe in the death penalty but in my cyberstalkers case, I would have no objection to it. I am of the view that stalkers should be thrown to the justice system for life.
The risk of covering stories [ whether its us] or mainstream news, is that there will be stalkers. with variable motives. Kay Burley finds herself in a difficult predicament and I hope it resolves sooner rather than later. Indeed, I hope the police do their job well.
The main issue about stalkers is their need for power and control. I know my group cyberstalkers assumed that they would "get one up on me". Of course, they were messing with an ex shrink.
The British Crime Survey states that 1 in 10 women are stalked. Some more detail on stalkers is available here. Further material is presented in the Psychiatric Times. This has some interesting self help guides. Also here are some self help books.
So I wish Kay Burley well and hope she recovers and returns back to Sky News. I have a great deal of sympathy for her predicament having experienced a similar situation. I have emailed my contact at Sky News this morning to wish her well. She is a great news anchor - one of the best.
I have no idea what Mr George's problem is but perhaps someone needs to see about getting him some psychological help or alternatively asking a psychiatrist to assess the "danger" he poses. I am sure the police can keep him away from Kay.
Actually, Sky News isn't the same without Kay - I think a lot of medics will agree with that. I hope she recovers from this traumatic time and we all hope to see her back at the news desk soon.
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Stalking is a devastating, life-destroying crime. It kills its victims.
High profile and professional women especially are targeted. The British Crime Survey's figures are political and to be taken lightly, I'm afraid. Researchers like Dr Lorraine Sheridan at Leicester U put the actual figure at c.1 in 4 professional women.
And the police are generally, as Sheridan et al can tell you, particularly inept at this sort of crime. It doesn't involve lots of exciting high speed car chases/testosterone/adrenaline quick fixes.
It's also a crime that leaves the victim very isolated. Apart from police lack of support, other people cannot understand the experience of psychological terrorism - it's not visible.
I hope Kay Burley gets all the support she wants - however, the fact that she's fallen suggests that even a well known public perrsonality is being thoroughly let down.
The sum is that people do not care about stalking - which is bullying par excellence, bullying taken to a sadistic psychopathological level - unless they have personal experience of it within their circle.
Thanks for writing about it, Rita.
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