The man watched the former host this morning sending flowers and staying in her cottage

A 63-year-old man has been given a 10-year restraining order for stalking TV presenter Fern Britton, sending her flowers and staying at the cottage she rented in Cornwall. James Haviland, of Great Oaks Chase, Chineham, Hampshire, pleaded guilty to stalking the former Celebrity Big Brother star without causing fear, alarm or distress between November 20, 2021 and September 16, 2023, in the Wadebridge area.

He stayed at Ms Britton’s property for a week in September 2023 and made another booking to stay there for another week in November of that year. Haviland also stayed in the same village three times between February and November 2022.

He also sent ‘unwanted’ flowers to Ms Britton three times, twice with a card, between November 2021 and July 2023 – and made another unfinished flower order in June 2022. Haviland’s sentencing at Magistrates’ Court Basingstoke, District Judge. Stephen Apted said he had caused the former This Morning presenter “distress and anxiety” with his “prolonged campaign” of stalking.

As well as the restraining order, the defendant was handed a 12-month community order requiring him to carry out 12 rehabilitation sessions and 150 hours of unpaid work – and told to pay a £114 victim surcharge and £85 pounds sterling legal costs.

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