LAURA Woods was reportedly left in “real fear” after an obsessed stalker sent her vile messages and threatened to kidnap her dog.
The presenter, 36, was left scared for her life after two years of torment which saw Harneet Kaur, 25, target her online and send unwanted packages to her home.
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Female Liverpool FC fan Kaur became infatuated with Woods back in 2021 and began visiting the street she lived on, the court heard.
Kaur’s sick campaign involved terrifying threats to kill Woods’ dog and vile messages where she referred to the pundit as a prostitute.
Bibles and sexual health tests were also arranged to be delivered to Woods’ London pad as well as food orders.
Kaur ordered Krispy Kreme doughnuts to the address before sending a Starbucks and a chocolate lollipop with the message “from your secret admirer and I’m not crazy”.
Antonie Muller, prosecuting at Wolverhampton Crown Court, said “Woods did not realise this was to be the start of a campaign against her”.
The contact then started turning “darker” when Woods, who presents for TNT Sport, was bombarded with messages.
One said she was a “former prostitute who slept herself into a job”.
Kaur was arrested in April 2022 and again in August that year.
Her phone and iPad were seized both times but that “didn’t stop her”.
In October she posted a picture of Woods commentating at Anfield with the caption: “Wtf is that coke head doing at Anfield.”
Kaur, who has autism, was previously banned from her team’s Anfield stadium for ticket touting.
While Kaur’s barrister claimed her offending was down to autistic traits of “obsession and compulsion”, judge Talog Davies rubbished this.
Jailing her to 14 months in prison, he said Kaur would have known the impact she was having on Woods.
Prosecutors fought to have Kaur banned from every football stadium in the country, reports the MailOnline.
But the judge said it was too harsh a punishment and instead handed her a jail sentence and a restraining order.
Kaur has been banned from contacting Woods and 14 other people, and cannot go within 500m of her home.
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Balbir Singh, in mitigation, said: “This defendant has never met Laura Woods, she has never spoken to her, she has never approached her – this is why this case is very different to many others that come before the courts.”
Kaur, from Walsall, West Mids, pleaded guilty to stalking.