Stalking under Scrutiny
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
'Stalking' - repeated, unwanted contact or intrusive behaviour from another person which causes fear or distress - affects huge numbers of people. The public perception is that only celebrities are the victims of stalkers, but over the course of their lives twenty per cent of women in Britain will have been stalked. It is often, though, difficult to confirm stalking and to take action against its perpetrators. Stalkers range from the socially inadequate to delusional and psychotic; but they are all singularly and pathologically persistent. Dr Raj Persaud explores the present situation and asks what more can be done. He hears from psychiatrists, psychologists, the police and victims of stalking. Some have been stalked for over 40 years. Raj Persaud also examines how to stop stalkers and prevent them from reoffending.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to Seriously with me, FEMI Martin. |
| 0:13.0 | In today's podcast, we focus on a subject that we often think is something that affects celebrities. |
| 0:20.0 | However, 20% of women will be victims of it during their lives. |
| 0:25.0 | Please be warned that there is strong language in this programme. |
| 0:29.0 | This is stalking under scrutiny. |
| 0:32.0 | At the beginning I received anonymous emails. looking under scrutiny. |
| 0:32.6 | At the beginning I received anonymous emails, flowers, unwanted gifts, and then because it kept happening, |
| 0:39.6 | we checked the CCTV footage at work. And I have to say because one of the messages said it's |
| 0:44.9 | been 10 years since I last saw you I just had a feeling it was him and then |
| 0:49.1 | obviously the harassment and stalking started from then. She became sort of amorous and made it clear that she was expecting this to turn into an affair |
| 0:56.2 | and I told her that I was happily married. |
| 0:58.9 | And she took it very well initially. |
| 1:00.9 | And then the volume of her correspondence just went up and I started |
| 1:04.6 | realizing I was becoming the object of an obsession. Then they turned overnight to |
| 1:08.4 | vitriolic hate mail and she declared that she was going to ruin me. |
| 1:13.4 | He then carried on sitting outside the surgery, watching me, following me on visits, following |
| 1:17.8 | me home, walking round and round the surgery all day, taking photographs at which point he was arrested. all stalking, lasting a number of years. They're not alone. Stalking, repeated |
| 1:35.1 | unwanted contact or intrusive behavior from another person which causes fear or |
| 1:39.6 | distress is a huge problem. According to Home Office statistics, in the course of their lives, |
| 1:45.0 | one in five women will be stalked and one in ten men. |
| 1:49.0 | Stalking is a prosecutable crime, |
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