Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
#AlexBelfield #VoiceofReason #BBCPresenterScandal
In this video I give an update, regarding my ongoing civil case against my stalker Alex Belfield for harassment.
I have now paid my solicitor nearly £15,000 to proceed.
I initially paid over £4,000 in legal fees in October 2022 but failed to reach an out of court settlement with Belfield.
Last July I launched a crowd funder to raise money to help with my escalating legal costs, and raised a further £1,850.
I pledged to pay forward all the donations to HIV charities, the Terrence Higgins Trust, Positive East and the Food Chain, if I win and Belfield is ordered to pay back my legal costs.
Despite the generosity of everyone who donated, I was still far short of raising the total of £15,000 in order to proceed with my case. Without this, I would lose every penny that I had already spent.
I received a huge volume of criticism and abuse from people online, in response to my crowd funder.
Belfield was jailed for five a half years for stalking myself and three others, after making homophobic videos about me, and harassing and blackmailing me and my family.
Before he was sentenced, Belfield posted videos outing me as HIV+.
I began legal action to have this videos removed, because YouTube refused to take them down.
I did not make any videos about Belfield until a year after he was sentenced and jailed, and only after he refused to settle my civil case.
I went public, and spoke for the first time about what Belfield did to me, and how it made me feel.
I did not expect to be scrutinised and victim shamed for asking for help.
I had said all along, that I intend to pay forward every donation that I received. None of the money will ever go into my pocket.
I specifically used the platform Crowd Justice to ensure that all the donations are paid directly to my solicitor.
The criticism I received for taking legal action, and for standing up for myself, has been horrendous.
I have had people call me a “tin rattling” “grifter” a “con man” a “liar” and a “money grabber” and accuse me of being a “scammer” and “begging” and told that I was “as bad as Belfield”.
I was told to “man up” “grow up” and to stop “crying” “get a job” and “pay my own bills”
People also left homophobic comments and accused me of trying to “finically ruin” Belfield.
Belfield had the opportunity to make all this go away by accepting the very generous offer that I made, I was even prepared to sign a non disclosure agreement.
I listened. I’ve reflected, and I decided what to do next.
I was the first person to stand up to Belfield and call out his behaviour that led to him being stopped and imprisoned. The judge recognised that Belfield “weaponised the internet” to target and harass me.
The legacy and example that he left is sadly reflected in the comments and abuse that I continue to face.
For this reason, I will continue to fight and defend myself, against online trolls and bullies.
I have now had to pay my solicitor £9000, using credit cards.
This was something I really hoped to avoid.
For those who know me, I got in to trouble when I was 21, because of credit card debt. And for many years, over a decade in fact, I purposely didn’t use credit cards.
Belfield found out about my history with credit card debt, and blackmailed me, in order to make me look un trustworthy. Even though this was something that happened 20 years ago, and even now he still write to his fans, which encourages and incites them to troll me, and to bring up my past to try and use it against me.
And that’s why I won’t stop. Until Belfield is made accountable.
I just want to get on with my life, and put this all behind me, yet I can’t whilst Belfield continues to write to people about me, despite a restraining order.
My barrister Gervase de Wilde, who also represented Jeremy Vine in his defamation case against Belfield, has now been instructed to prepare the particulars of my claim against Belfield for harassment.
There will still be more costs, which I will find a way to pay, but I’m not going to beg or ask for anyone to help me.
My crowd funder is still live, if you do want to help me, and as I say any money that I raise through that will then be paid to HIV charities once I win the costs back.
Any donations raised through Crowd Justice will go directly to Samuel Solicitors.
crowdjustice.com/case/help-stop-ex-bbc-presenter-alex-belfield
I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported me, and checked in on me, because this has been tough, and I really did hit rock bottom, and if it wasn’t for the charities including Postive East, the Food Chain and the Terrence Higgins Trust, I probably wouldn’t be here. And that is why I am doing this. For them, and for myself.
To everyone who did donate, thank you, honestly from the bottom of my heart, I will ensure that that money does end up going to those charities to help the people that need it.
#AlexBelfield #VoiceofReason #BBCPresenterScandal
In this video I give an update, regarding my ongoing civil case against my stalker Alex Belfield for harassment.
I have now paid my solicitor nearly £15,000 to proceed.
I initially paid over £4,000 in legal fees in October 2022 but failed to reach an out of court settlement with Belfield.
Last July I launched a crowd funder to raise money to help with my escalating legal costs, and raised a further £1,850.
I pledged to pay forward all the donations to HIV charities, the Terrence Higgins Trust, Positive East and the Food Chain, if I win and Belfield is ordered to pay back my legal costs.
Despite the generosity of everyone who donated, I was still far short of raising the total of £15,000 in order to proceed with my case. Without this, I would lose every penny that I had already spent.
I received a huge volume of criticism and abuse from people online, in response to my crowd funder.
Belfield was jailed for five a half years for stalking myself and three others, after making homophobic videos about me, and harassing and blackmailing me and my family.
Before he was sentenced, Belfield posted videos outing me as HIV+.
I began legal action to have this videos removed, because YouTube refused to take them down.
I did not make any videos about Belfield until a year after he was sentenced and jailed, and only after he refused to settle my civil case.
I went public, and spoke for the first time about what Belfield did to me, and how it made me feel.
I did not expect to be scrutinised and victim shamed for asking for help.
I had said all along, that I intend to pay forward every donation that I received. None of the money will ever go into my pocket.
I specifically used the platform Crowd Justice to ensure that all the donations are paid directly to my solicitor.
The criticism I received for taking legal action, and for standing up for myself, has been horrendous.
I have had people call me a “tin rattling” “grifter” a “con man” a “liar” and a “money grabber” and accuse me of being a “scammer” and “begging” and told that I was “as bad as Belfield”.
I was told to “man up” “grow up” and to stop “crying” “get a job” and “pay my own bills”
People also left homophobic comments and accused me of trying to “finically ruin” Belfield.
Belfield had the opportunity to make all this go away by accepting the very generous offer that I made, I was even prepared to sign a non disclosure agreement.
I listened. I’ve reflected, and I decided what to do next.
I was the first person to stand up to Belfield and call out his behaviour that led to him being stopped and imprisoned. The judge recognised that Belfield “weaponised the internet” to target and harass me.
The legacy and example that he left is sadly reflected in the comments and abuse that I continue to face.
For this reason, I will continue to fight and defend myself, against online trolls and bullies.
I have now had to pay my solicitor £9000, using credit cards.
This was something I really hoped to avoid.
For those who know me, I got in to trouble when I was 21, because of credit card debt. And for many years, over a decade in fact, I purposely didn’t use credit cards.
Belfield found out about my history with credit card debt, and blackmailed me, in order to make me look un trustworthy. Even though this was something that happened 20 years ago, and even now he still write to his fans, which encourages and incites them to troll me, and to bring up my past to try and use it against me.
And that’s why I won’t stop. Until Belfield is made accountable.
I just want to get on with my life, and put this all behind me, yet I can’t whilst Belfield continues to write to people about me, despite a restraining order.
My barrister Gervase de Wilde, who also represented Jeremy Vine in his defamation case against Belfield, has now been instructed to prepare the particulars of my claim against Belfield for harassment.
There will still be more costs, which I will find a way to pay, but I’m not going to beg or ask for anyone to help me.
My crowd funder is still live, if you do want to help me, and as I say any money that I raise through that will then be paid to HIV charities once I win the costs back.
Any donations raised through Crowd Justice will go directly to Samuel Solicitors.
crowdjustice.com/case/help-stop-ex-bbc-presenter-alex-belfield
I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported me, and checked in on me, because this has been tough, and I really did hit rock bottom, and if it wasn’t for the charities including Postive East, the Food Chain and the Terrence Higgins Trust, I probably wouldn’t be here. And that is why I am doing this. For them, and for myself.
To everyone who did donate, thank you, honestly from the bottom of my heart, I will ensure that that money does end up going to those charities to help the people that need it.
