{"id":187403,"date":"2023-09-27T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=187403"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:22:59","slug":"coronation-street-star-will-read-statement-at-stalkers-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/coronation-street-star-will-read-statement-at-stalkers-sentencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street star will read statement at stalker&apos;s sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Coronation Street star Nicola Thorp&#8217;s &#8216;grim reaper&#8217; stalker will be sentenced in December and actress will read victim impact statement in full detailing her ordeal<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ravinderjit Dhillon, 30, will return for sentence at Snaresbrook Crown Court<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Coronation Street actress Nicola Thorp will relive her horrifying ordeal at the hands of a stalker in court before he is finally sentenced in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ravinderjit Dhillon, 30, called himself the &#8216;grim reaper&#8217; as he used 25 different identities to target Ms Thorp and made sickening threats to choke and rape her.<\/p>\n<p>In a hearing this morning, it was confirmed that Dhillon, of Feltham, Middlesex, will return for sentence at Snaresbrook Crown Court on December 5 after Judge Rosa Dean ordered a psychiatric report.<\/p>\n<p><span>It was also confirmed that Ms Thorp will read her victim impact statement to the court in full before Judge Dean passes sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dhillon began his warped campaign when he sent the 34-year-old an intimate photo of himself in October 2018.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/11\/75887067-12566013-image-a-1_1695811533591.jpg\" height=\"549\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Nicola Thorp and fiance Nikesh Patel at Uxbridge Magistrates Court in June<\/p>\n<p>Blackpool-born Nicola handed an 89 page document to the Met Police detailing the harassment she suffered at Dhillon&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;I&#8217;ve spent most of my adult life fighting for the rights of women and doing so in the public eye has come with some personal cost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I became the target of the exact behaviour I was standing up against.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Dhillon became an army of men all wanting to do me harm, threats to rape me, choke me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Thorp earlier told the court Dhillon sent her a message on Instagram that said &#8216;a woman&#8217;s place was on her knees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He told me I was to be put in a headlock and forced into sexual acts and wanted to make my parents watch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He sent me messages saying, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to be with you forever&#8217;, he said, &#8216;I&#8217;m your grim reaper&#8217; and in one message alone he said 28 times he &#8216;wasn&#8217;t going to leave me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He said alleyways are the perfect place to pick up drunk stupid women and stupid 16-year-old b**ches.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/11\/72120865-12566013-Coronation_Street_star_Nicola_Thorp_s_stalker_who_called_himself-a-3_1695811665443.jpg\" height=\"884\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Coronation Street star Nicola Thorp&#8217;s stalker called himself the &#8216;grim reaper&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/11\/75887065-12566013-image-a-2_1695811573926.jpg\" height=\"930\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year she attended court holding hands with actor fiance Nikesh Patel<\/p>\n<p>Ms Thorp said he also masqueraded as a woman called &#8216;Helena&#8217; asking for her advice as she was being harassed by an employer, so he could interact with her.<\/p>\n<p>Dhillon also contacted her on social media claiming one of his friends followed her onto a train &#8216;and had got so close to her he could smell her.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Thorp told the court: &#8216;As a freelancer I work in different locations, I would have to inform each site [to keep an eye on] anyone who was asking for me and to keep a look out on my behalf.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The longevity of his online stalking wore me down. This was no &#8216;one off&#8217; and that terrified me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dhillon&#8217;s IP address was finally linked by police to the accounts he used to harass\u00a0 Ms Thorp and he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>She said she did not learn of Dhillon&#8217;s true identity until his first court appearance on 14 February last year.<\/p>\n<p>In a prepared statement he claimed he didn&#8217;t know Nicola Thorp or anything about her, but he was convicted of stalking involving fear of violence after a trial in April.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum penalty for stalking involving fear of violence of violence is 10 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/11\/72119859-12566013-The_34_year_old_was_at_court_with_her_actor_fiance_Nikesh_Patel_-a-4_1695811692689.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old (pictured with fiance Nikesh Patel) told how she gave the Met Police a document containing details of the harassment she faced<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/12\/72119883-12566013-Ms_Thorp_announced_her_engagement_to_fiance_Patel_in_January_thi-a-9_1695813709411.jpg\" height=\"795\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ms Thorp announced her engagement to fiance Patel in January this year<\/p>\n<p>Nicola rose to fame after going public with her complaint against a major accountancy firm who fired the star for refusing to wear heels.<\/p>\n<p>She later petitioned for a ban on dress codes that force women to wear high heels.<\/p>\n<p>The actress starred on the long-running ITV soap Coronation Street from 2017 to 2019, playing social worker Nicola Rubinstein, who was the estranged daughter of serial killer Pat Phelan.<\/p>\n<p>She became the first star to get caught in Channel Four&#8217;s Celebrity Hunted, in aid of Stand Up For Cancer, in April when she was found at a Birmingham hotel after going on the run with Nikesh.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Thorp also shared her stalking ordeal on This Morning when she appeared as a guest panellist.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;I&#8217;ve had an online stalker for three years and the police thankfully were able to identify him after a year of investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But because of the fact that this man was not verified online, it took them such a long time to find him &#8211; and obviously during that time I felt very, very unsafe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter had a verification system, it would have been far easier for the police to identify who this man is.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year she attended court holding hands with actor boyfriend Nikesh Patel.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12566013\/coronation-street-nicola-thorp-stalker-sentenced-december-victim-statement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronation Street star Nicola Thorp&#8217;s &#8216;grim reaper&#8217; stalker will be sentenced in December and actress will read victim impact statement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Coronation Street star will read statement at stalker&amp;apos;s sentencing - News Need News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/coronation-street-star-will-read-statement-at-stalkers-sentencing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coronation Street star will read statement at stalker&amp;apos;s sentencing - News Need News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Coronation Street star Nicola Thorp&#8217;s &#8216;grim reaper&#8217; 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