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13/10/2006
TV reporter sentenced for harassment
A TV reporter found guilty of bombarding Crystal Palace Chairman Simon Jordon with text messages and phone calls has been given a suspended jail sentence.
35-year-old Tara Stout sent Jordon underwear, love letters and would call and text him up to 200 times per day. She also sent him the bills for shopping trips after they met in March last year.
She was given a 26 week suspended sentence, suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid work.
District Judge Quentin Purdy told Stout that she had pursued a "wilful and sustained" campaign against Mr Jordan, knowing that "it was going to cause him at the very least annoyance".
Stout, who worked for the BBC and Sky Sports, read out a letter of apology addressed to taxpayers and residents of Westminster and the employees and members of the magistrates' court.
Stout was also believed to have swapped lewd text messages with the former England football captain Gary Lineker.
The two men denied any physical involvement with Stout.
(CD/SP)
35-year-old Tara Stout sent Jordon underwear, love letters and would call and text him up to 200 times per day. She also sent him the bills for shopping trips after they met in March last year.
She was given a 26 week suspended sentence, suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid work.
District Judge Quentin Purdy told Stout that she had pursued a "wilful and sustained" campaign against Mr Jordan, knowing that "it was going to cause him at the very least annoyance".
Stout, who worked for the BBC and Sky Sports, read out a letter of apology addressed to taxpayers and residents of Westminster and the employees and members of the magistrates' court.
Stout was also believed to have swapped lewd text messages with the former England football captain Gary Lineker.
The two men denied any physical involvement with Stout.
(CD/SP)
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