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Prosecutors say Kyle Shaw’s messages turned into abusive
A stalker who believed Strictly Come Dancing pass judgement on Shirley Ballas used to be his aunt has been given a suspended jail sentence.
Kyle Shaw’s “continual marketing campaign” noticed him ship abusive messages and a “menacing” danger to Pass over Ballas in addition to her pals and co-workers.
Liverpool Crown Courtroom heard the 37-year-old idea Pass over Ballas’s overdue brother, David Wealthy, used to be his father.
Shaw, who admitted stalking the 64-year-old dancer, inflicting her critical hurt or misery between 31 August 2017 and 29 November 2023, used to be sentenced to twenty months, suspended for 20 months.
Passing sentence, Pass judgement on Gary Woodhall mentioned: “This used to be a menacing danger in opposition to her and her circle of relatives.”
Shaw, from Whetstone Lane in Birkenhead, used to be additionally made the topic of a restraining order for lifestyles.
It approach he’s going to by no means be allowed to touch both Pass over Ballas or her niece, mom or former spouse.
Nicola Daley, prosecuting, mentioned: “He believed, and it is glaring from what he used to be advised by means of his mom, that her overdue brother used to be his father.”
The courtroom heard that whilst there used to be no proof his trust used to be fallacious, there used to be handiest “restricted proof” it used to be proper.
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Shirley Ballas moved her mom, who’s now 86, from Merseyside to London on account of Shaw’s movements
Ms Daley mentioned that, in his messages, Shaw had accused Pass over Ballas of being chargeable for the loss of life of her 44-year-old brother, who took his personal lifestyles in 2003.
The courtroom heard Shaw additionally arrange social media accounts in her brother’s title.
The prosecution mentioned Shaw approached Pass over Ballas’s mom, 86-year-old Audrey Wealthy, when buying groceries in Wirral in 2019.
Shaw advised Ms Wealthy she used to be his grandmother and endured to observe her across the store when she didn’t wish to talk to him, the courtroom heard.
This incident ended in Pass over Ballas shifting her mom from Merseyside to London.
The courtroom additionally heard Shaw posted messages on Twitter, now X, which integrated a picture of the BBC One celebrity’s house deal with along side a message which mentioned: “You ruined my lifestyles, I will break yours and everybody’s round you.”
Because of Shaw’s movements, Ms Daley mentioned Pass over Ballas turned into reluctant to socialize with colleagues and stopped the usage of public shipping.
The prosecutor added: “She described having sleepless nights being worried about herself and her circle of relatives’s protection and being specifically distressed when ideas have been made to her that she and her mom have been chargeable for her brother taking his personal lifestyles.”
Shirley Ballas has been head pass judgement on at the BBC display since 2017
The courtroom used to be advised in October 2020 Ballas contacted police after he messaged her and mentioned: “Do you wish to have me to kill myself, Shirley?”
The courtroom additionally heard Shaw despatched messages to Pass over Ballas’s niece Mary Assall, paintings colleagues from Unfastened Girls and Strictly Come Dancing in addition to her former spouse Daniel Taylor.
He referred to as him in November 2023 and in an “implied danger” advised him he knew the place they lived and described what he knew concerning the TV celebrity’s actions, the courtroom used to be advised.
And when the Strictly pass judgement on had ebook signings deliberate in Wirral, Shaw messaged her pronouncing: “I will’t wait to satisfy you for the primary time Aunty Shirley. With a bit of luck I will get an autograph.”
Sentencing Shaw, the pass judgement on mentioned: “Since 2017 you’ve engaged in continual, undesirable on-line touch with Shirley Ballas and her circle of relatives. You probably did so as a result of your mom advised you Shirley Ballas’s overdue brother used to be your organic father.
“I am happy your cause for this offending used to be a want to hunt touch with folks you really believed have been your circle of relatives.
“Whether or not in truth there is any reality in that trust is tricky, if no longer inconceivable, to resolve.”
He added: “This used to be no longer an offence pushed out of delusional ideals, bodily appeal or just an obsession with a celeb.”
‘Complicated psychological well being problems’
John Weate, protecting, mentioned Shaw had suffered advanced psychological well being problems since youth and in his mid-to-late teenagers used to be advised by means of his mom that David Wealthy used to be his father.
Mr Weate mentioned: “He now accepts that Pass over Ballas and her circle of relatives do not need to have any touch with him and, importantly, he volunteered the ideas that he has no aim of contacting them once more.”
He mentioned Shaw’s use of hashish had “no longer helped him”.
Shaw used to be ordered to do 20 days of rehabilitation process and adopt a 12-month drug rehabilitation requirement.
‘Increasingly more erratic’
Natassia McAdam, of the Crown Prosecution Carrier, mentioned: “Kyle Shaw’s makes an attempt to touch (her) have been obviously stalking.
“They have been continual and turned into abusive and brought about anxiousness and misery over a protracted time frame.
“His behaviour turned into more and more erratic, and he or she feared he would grow to be violent. He knew what he used to be doing would motive her alarm and misery.”
Pass over Ballas, at the start from Wallasey, Wirral, has been head pass judgement on at the BBC display since 2017.
By way of the age of 21, she had received a number of world competitions, together with the Global Latin American Championships.
She retired from aggressive dancing in 1996.
