Sports pundit Laura Woods has spoken out about her hellish ordeal of being harassed by a female stalker for three years.
The 38-year-old mum has opened up about her ordeal for the first time, explaining she was left living in 'fear' due to the escalating obsession a female football fan had with her.
Chillingly, the woman sent Woods a birthday card which she said sported the message: "Today’s the day you were born and tonight’s the night you’re going to die."
Among other unwanted deliveries - including a Bible, an STI testing kit and food orders - Harneet Kaur, 25, also sent the award-winning presenter 'terrifying' messages about the security set-up at her home.
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The Liverpool fan targeted Woods from June 2021 until September 2023, and a court heard how she sent her packages addressed from her 'secret admirer', which added: "And I'm not crazy."
However, prosecutors told how the correspondence suddenly 'all turned much darker', according to The Telegraph.
Among the series of messages she bombarded Woods with, Kaur accused the TV star of being a 'former prostitute who slept herself into a job', and a 'vile, stuck-up person'.
Ultimately, she was jailed for 14 months last year and given a restraining order which bans her from contacting Woods and 14 other people, as well as forbidding her from going within 500m of her home.
Now, the TNT sports presenter has spoken out about her stalker nightmare, while detailing the 'extreme lengths' Kaur went to while harassing her.
"For three years, she would go to extreme lengths to make my life very uncomfortable," she told The Telegraph. "There were birthday cards that would say: ‘Today’s the day you were born and tonight’s the night you’re going to die.’
"I would receive monthly funeral letters, because she had signed me up to these things. She sent the animal welfare team around about my dog."
Kaur also threatened to kidnap and kill her pet, the court previously heard.
"It was just too much, and it changed the way I felt about London," Woods said. "I lived on my own with my dog, and I felt very exposed. I didn’t want to be there any longer. It spun me into quite a bad place. Suddenly I was extremely anxious and low.”
Woods explained that the woman also once rang the police claiming that she had witnessed her 'being dragged into my house by a man with a knife'.
But what really unnerved her was when she received an email from Kaur while she was on air and covering Oleksandr Usyk’s fight with Daniel Dubois in Poland in 2023.
Woods said: "It was a video of my front door and a message, saying: ‘I know you’ve got three cameras in your house'.
"I started going through all the video footage to see if anyone was in there. It was terrifying. It was every possible way you could conceive that she would try to get to me.
"Dating websites, spam websites, it was relentless - I couldn’t understand how one person could do it all. There was a video she posted with a gun in America at a shooting range, and it was directed at me."
Kaur admitted to stalking Woods before she was jailed, while her solicitor claimed that, as she has a 'severe degree of autism which debilitated all aspects of her life', she didn't understand the impact she was having on Woods.
"This defendant has never met Laura Woods, she has never spoken to her, she has never approached her - this is why this case is very different to many others that come before the courts," Balbir Singh said at the time.
Olivia Burke