Myleene Klass suffered 'nine-month ordeal at hands of stalker who sent her Catwoman suit and tried to post air gun'

An alleged stalker sent Myleene Klass a Catwoman and police officer fancy-dress outfits and tried to post her an air pistol during a nine-month campaign of harassment, a court heard.

Peter Windsor, 60, also sent the former pop star multiple letters and ‘unwanted gifts including shoes and jewellery’, prosecutors said.

His alleged stalking had a ‘substantial adverse effect on Ms Klass’s usual day-to-day activities’, and which he knew or ought to have known would cause her ‘serious alarm or distress’, according to legal documents.

Windsor is also accused of stalking Ms Klass’s colleague, Katie Breathwick, 53, a late-night presenter on Classic FM.

Prosecutors said that between 2020 and 2023 he sent Ms Breathwick some binoculars, a pair of running shoes, a bottle of champagne and a stamp collection.

Both Ms Breathwick and Ms Klass, 46, received a series of unwanted ‘incoherent’ letters that had Windsor’s address on and appeared to be in his handwriting, Birmingham Crown Court heard. 

After targeting Ms Breathwick for almost three years, Windsor diverted his attention to her Classic FM colleague, Ms Klass, prosecutors said.

The items were allegedly sent to the radio station’s London office, though the air pistol was intercepted before it reached the mother-of-three, the court heard.

Neither Ms Breathwick or Ms Klass – who found fame in the pop group Hear’Say, created through reality series Popstars in 2001 – attended the brief hearing last month.

Windsor, of Stechford, Birmingham, appeared on a videolink from prison, where he is being held on remand.

Defence barrister Phil Brunt successfully applied for an adjournment. He is yet to enter a plea to two counts of causing serious alarm by stalking but a trial has been scheduled for March.

Hear’Say had one of the biggest-selling debut singles of all time with their 2001 hit Pure & Simple, which shifted 550,000 copies in the first week of release, becoming the first of two UK No 1s for the group.

But their success was short-lived and the group disbanded after 18 months.

Classically trained musician Ms Klass was runner-up on I’m a Celebrity four years later, with scenes of the star showering in a white bikini becoming an enduring image for the series.

The bikini was later sold at a charity auction, raising £7,500.

Last year, Ms Klass won an ‘all stars’ version of the show set in South Africa and became the first ‘I’m a Celebrity Legend’. Besides her work at Classic FM she is a panellist on ITV’s Loose Women.

Ms Klass is in a long-term relationship with Simon Motson with whom she has a son, who was born in 2019. Ms Breathwick, who is married to the creator of the

BBC series Death In Paradise, Robert Thorogood, has worked at Classic FM since 2008.