Harry Styles: Alleged Stalker In Court Charged With Following One Direction Star

Styles: Called Police

A man has appeared in court, charged with stalking One Direction star Harry Styles by sleeping outside his Hampstead home and posting notes through his letterbox.

Spanish national Pablo Tarazaga-Orero, 26, of no fixed address appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court last Friday, where he entered a not guilty plea.

He was remanded in custody and appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on Monday. 

Tarazaga-Orero is charged with stalking without causing fear, alarm or distress in Spaniards Road between April 6 and June 1, this year.

The charge also alleges he made unwanted approaches to the singer-actor in the street outside the address.

Tarazaga-Orero initially appeared in court after his airport arrest returning to the UK from a two-week holiday to his native Spain.

Due to the high-profile nature of the case he was remanded in custody to appear before Emma Arbuthnot, the Chief Magistrate of England and Wales, sitting at Westminster Magistrates Court.

However, the case was eventually heard by Deputy District Judge Ross Johnson.

Tarazaga-Orero: Weekend In Nick

He bailed Tarazaga-Orero to appear at Hendon Magistrates Court for an all-day trial on October 14 on condition he surrenders his passport to the police, does not contact Styles and does not enter the NW3 postcode.

Styles will be the main prosecution evidence and an application by the Crown Prosecution Service to remain behind a screen in the courtroom was granted.

There are two more civilian prosecution witnesses, including a Michelle Raycroft.

Tarazaga-Orero’s lawyer Ms Angharad Marshall told the court: “He denies some things that are alleged, but accepts other things.

“He does not agree he tried to grab the complainant, but does agree he was in the park and at the pub and denies it was harassment or stalking or that he was looking at him in a funny way.”

Skinny dark-haired Tarazaga-Orero appeared in the dock wearing a lavender t-shirt and off-white trousers. He had beads around his neck and both wrists.

An original trial date in September was scrapped due to Styles’ unavailability.