Film star Keira Knightley’s stalker was sent to a secure psychiatric hospital today after flouting a court order by writing threatening tweets about the star and her family.
Mark Edmund Revill, 50, breached a restraining order in a series of chilling tweets that suggested the actress, husband James Righton, 33 and two year-old daughter Edie would be targeted at their £3.9m Islington home.
He tweeted: “My campaign of disobedience continues in Canonbury tonight,” and: “Keira Knightley and James Righton are not going to get much help from the police.”
Blackfriars Crown Court Judge Henry Blacksell QC announced: “There is no doubt great harm and upset has been caused to those people and their family.
“I have come to the conclusion that it is not just them that are put at serious risk, but the general public.”
The hospital order is indefinite and it will be down to psychiatrists at Homerton Hospital’s John Howard Centre to determine when it is safe to release Revill.
The court heard he is a paranoid schizophrenic, who condition has been exacerbated by a long history of drug abuse.
The couple informed the police of the breach and on April 1 Revill was arrested at 4.15pm and police found a collection of 324 child pornography images he had downloaded form the internet.
Revill, of Glebe Road, Hackney had also tweeted an indecent picture of a child to the actress, which horrified the mum-of-one.
“Ms Knightley sets out in her statement it was something that gave her particular anxiety since they have a young child,” prosecutor Miss Jennifer Knight told the court previously.
Revill pleaded guilty to breaching the restraining order between January 1 and April 1 by composing a series of tweets to Keira.
The order, made at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court on December 1, last year prohibits Revill contacting the 32 year-old star and going within 100 metres of the home she shares with ex-Klaxons musician James and their daughter.
He also pleaded guilty to making indecent photographs of children on or before April 1 and distributing an indecent photograph of a child via twitter on March 9.
Revill further admitted an additional, lesser charge, brought under the Crime and Disorder Act of sending menacing messages via a public online forum.
He claims he only made 88 indecent images of children, but the dispute will no effect sentence.
“These charges arise from the fact Mr. Revill was convicted of stalking, having attended Keira Knightley’s house over a period of eight weeks and posted postcards and other items through her front door,” explained Miss Knight.
“The crown will be applying for another restraining order in more stringent terms than before.
“We will ask for a Sexual Harm Prevention Order to prevent any further publishing of indecent images.”
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