Former pop singer Myleene Klass has shared her relief that she and her family can finally have peace after a man with schizophrenia was found guilty of stalking her.

Peter Windsor was convicted of stalking the 47-year-old Ms. Klass after he sent her an air pistol and referred to her as a ‘naughty vixen’ during a harassment campaign that lasted nine months.

His troubling actions included sending disturbing messages suggesting she should ‘correct him’ with a whip and cane, along with letters and gifts like costumes and jewelry.

The 61-year-old man, from Stetchford in Birmingham, claimed that some of his gifts were meant as jokes. However, the Birmingham Crown Court found him guilty today, establishing that he stalked Ms. Klass from November 2023 to August 2024.

Windsor was also found guilty of stalking Ms. Klass’s colleague at Classic FM, Katie Breathwick, aged 54. He sent her items such as binoculars, spiked running shoes, a bottle of champagne, and a stamp collection for her son, totaling between 80 and 100 items from March 2020 to December 2023.

In a statement following the verdicts, which she posted on Instagram, Ms Klass said: ‘After a horrific year, my family and I finally have peace.

Klass expressed gratitude, saying, “Thank you for your love and support, especially to Birmingham Police, notably PC Marius Dinescu, Judge Tom Rochford, State Prosecutor Timothy Sapwell, Members of the Jury and Birmingham Crown Court, Katie Breathwick, Classic FM, Global Radio, Severine Berman, and Simon Jones.”

The trial also heard Windsor sent a letter signed in blood to former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in which he ‘pledged his soul to satan’.

The items and correspondence addressed to the two Classic FM presenters were intercepted at Global radio’s London office where the pair worked.

The air pistol was stopped by police before it reached Ms Klass, the court heard.

Jurors reached their unanimous guilty verdict on Peter Windsor after deliberating for four hours and eight minutes over two days.

Windsor, wearing a grey sweatshirt, sighed and pursed his lips in the dock as the verdicts were announced.

Judge Tom Rochford told Windsor, who has been on remand throughout his trial, that the options for his sentencing included prison or two types of hospital order.

Sobbing in court as she gave evidence, Ms Klass described her ‘sheer terror’ at finding out she had been sent a cache of ‘overtly sexual’ letters and presents over four years including a set of handcuffs with a note saying ‘whip me, beat me priestess Myleene’.

The mother-of-three had to pause several times in the witness box to compose herself as she recounted how a police officer called her while on the school run to tell her about the weapon, which was an air pistol.

‘He said that whilst this gun wasn’t necessary for a licence, at close proximity, right up to six feet it could prove fatal,’ she told jurors. ‘I think anyone receiving a gun would be terrified.

‘I was extremely shocked because suddenly it felt extremely real. I think we spend so much time as women trying to justify why we feel the way we do, have we misinterpreted it? There was no grey area here, there was a gun in a box with my name on it.’

Ms Klass said she had been forced to enhance security at home after being targeted by Windsor.

Letters and parcels sent to Ms Klass and Mrs Breathwick were also shown to the jury.

One of the notes tells how he managed ‘5,000 pull ups in 19 hours’ while another talks about the women’s’ ‘alien’ eyes and how he would like to paddle in a lake outside Buckingham Palace with them.

He also sent the two women a bottle of Champagne each. Wilson sent Mrs Breathwick perfume and a stamp collection for her son. In some he referred to himself as ‘Sir Peter Windsor’.

During her own tearful evidence, Ms Breathwick, 53, told how the dozens of letters and parcels sent by ‘unhinged’ Windsor left her feeling ‘deeply, deeply distressed’ and concerned for her own safety.

Jurors were told of two letters he sent to Ms Sturgeon in October 2020 and October 2022.

The agreed facts, read to the court record by prosecutor Timothy Sapwell, said of the first letter: ‘In it he said that he might visit her to discuss groups of people with whom he appeared to take issue, including Freemasons, politicians and doctors.

‘He also said that he pledged his soul to Satan and that the letter was signed in blood. There was some dried blood on it.’

Windsor was arrested by Police Scotland officers at his home in January 2023 on suspicion of threatening behaviour as a result of the two letters, but a decision was ultimately taken not to prosecute him because he was not resident in Scotland.

Windsor, who has used multiple names including Peter Szymanski and changed his surname to Windsor by deed poll, appeared in the witness box wearing a light grey sweatshirt and dark grey jogging bottoms.

Answering questions from defence barrister Philip Brunt, Windsor, who has no previous convictions, said he had sent the items to the radio presenters and Ms Sturgeon as a ‘pretend weird’ acting performance.

Insisting that the packages he sent did not amount to stalking, he told the court: ‘Stalkers want things and blackmail whereas ordinary gentlemanly types just give gifts for no particular reason sometimes

‘I haven’t been to London for years. I didn’t take it as the definition of stalking, just sending things.’

Saying he had a ‘pretend obsession’ with Mrs Breathwick and Ms Klass and wanted to get in the newspapers, Windsor added: ‘I thought I would be arrested and let go the same day.’

The court heard Windsor was arrested in September last year at his home in Birmingham when police found a ‘number of items’ including maps of London showing where the women worked as well as a black leather glove, women’s stockings and a pair of binoculars.

Jurors had been told Windsor has a ‘history of mental illness and a longstanding diagnosis of schizophrenia’.

Opening the case against him, the prosecutor, said Windsor had ‘became obsessed’ with the two presenters.

He said that they were used to getting fan mail and the occasional gift but this was ‘very different’ and involved a large number of letters and parcels many of which were ‘bizarre’ and ‘demonstrated his obsessive interest’.

Mr Sapwell said there was also a ‘sexual overtone too’ – highlighting Catwoman and police officer outfits sent to Ms Klass.

He said Windsor initially answered no comment then he decided to answer some of the questions that were put to him.

He said he sent the items to Ms Klass as a ‘joke’ after seeing her in ‘provocative underwear’ in a newspaper. He said the gun was a joke too.

Addressing the jury, Mr Sapwell said the normal verdict would be guilty but there was ‘another layer’ to this case.

He said Windsor has a ‘history of mental illness and a longstanding diagnosis of schizophrenia’ which when medicated ‘largely coped with but when it’s not he doesn’t’.

Windsor argued his conduct did not amount to stalking and that the two women were not caused alarm or distress and never asked him to stop.