It's seven in the morning and washing myself in the kitchen sing which faces the conservatory and the glass and this is seven it's dark

Since March but at this point and I see him standing and he's watching me and I was about to take my clothes off and do an armpit wash because the bathroom was in the middle being installed.

He knew this. I'm Jamie Beebbe Beebe andik d'E. On today's episode of Strictly Stalking

we're speaking with Ila Trequir who was stalked by her neighbor. She's also a TV

host and true crime investigator and has recently released a new true crime

podcast series called The Storyte naked Villene.

I was here to share her story and describe the links she's had to go through to

try to get justice.

Ayla, thank you for joining us today.

Thank you for having me and thank you for all the good work that you do, raising awareness in this because it's so important.

What inspired you to become a television presenter?

Well, I started as a journalist and kind of by accident when I was extremely young,

literally careers advisors at school. We had to do internships. I did a questionnaire and it came out

98% suited to being a journalist. So that's how I started. So I got into newspaper journalism and I did that and then got approached by television and I'll be quite

honest I had no desire to be a television presenter kind of looked down my nose at TV journalism and then I started doing it and

realized how difficult it was and the other you know aspect of visually showing a

story as well as telling it it's kind of easier to just write down in words and you've got as long as you want

etc but television's a different beast and yeah I started in television I was 21 and I was I think the youngest news anchor in the UK at the time.

So it all unfolded organically I guess by accident but organically.

What kind of stories were you covering at first? So from a really young age and I did an unusual way into journalism. I'd applied to go to university and was accepted but I ended up getting accepted onto our in-house training scheme with the newspaper so you got your qualification and on-the-job training.

So I was a full-time journalist as a teenager and the one job that every journalist hates is called a death knock which is when you have to go knock on the door of the family after a tragic death

and be at a car accident, murder otherwise.

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