After the obsessed fan attempted to pick up his daughter Harper from school, David Beckham described his misery as feeling ‘helpless’ in the face of the stalker.
Harper was so afraid to leave the house that she never went.
After making repeated attempts to get in touch with former Manchester United and England midfielder David since 2016, Sharon Bell, 58, was charged with harassing him.
She mistakenly thought she was dating Beckham, 47, and that Victoria and he were planning to steal her eggs from within her.
The most terrifying occurrence occurred on November 18, when Bell claimed to be Harper Beckham’s mother and showed up at the Beckhams’ 11-year-old daughter’s prep school.
To pick her up, I’m here.
Victoria was also present and observed the stalker appearing to be “empty” as the police arrived and removed her.
Her detention under the Mental Health Act revealed the celebrity couple’s fear regarding her harassment campaign.
She posed a risk to Harper, Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz, according to District Judge Michael Snow, since she was “obsessed with the family.”
David made the following admission in a statement that was read aloud to the Westminster Magistrates Court: “I felt that the language in the letters was growing and getting more emotional and threatening to me and my family – and this scared me.
She suddenly showed up, which made the threat more precise and terrifying.
I was frustrated that there was nothing I could do and felt helpless.
Bell and Beckham are not romantically involved, according to Beckham, who claims to have never met Bell.
According to Victoria Beckham’s response, “[my husband and I] are rarely notified of the nature of letters from fans due to the volume of attention [my husband and I] receive from fans.”
“I tried to keep her secure, and I’m concerned for her.”
I am quite worried and frightened about Harper going to the park or being taken on school outings, she continued.
She is now afraid to leave the house, which has made things more difficult for her, said prosecutor Arizuna Asante.
She worries, particularly when Harper goes on field excursions for school.
On July 5 of last year, Bell wrote Beckham a handwritten letter informing him that she will be visiting the house a few days later.
“I hope you don’t mind, but I got your address from a detective agency. David, I feel something for you,” it said.
Victoria claims she has been looting my bank account for years, which is not very polite, so she owes me some money, David. I would prefer that she wasn’t present.
Bell, according to testimony given in court, was “persistent” when she arrived to the residence on July 9 but fled after learning it was the wrong address.
Before Bell arrived on September 9, another letter was delivered to the Beckhams’ Holland Park residence.
If you won’t come, someone will tell the media that you both have my roll numbers. Given that you have an OBE, that wouldn’t seem good, would it?, the letter stated.
You said I could come in for a conversation and a cup of tea if I write to you first and I’m unarmed (which I will be) (Earl Grey is my favourite tea).
Please let me come in for a discussion since I truly want to talk to you.
The letter also made mention of Richard Madeley’s residence and promised not to criticize the recipient.
I simply want to speak with you. David, you owe me that. David, your friend Tom Cruise has greatly disturbed me (PS I would like to be with you when you have brain surgery to give you a few new brain cells).
“He has done some awful things to me,” I said.
“I do love you and have done since we were children,” Bell said in a third letter, which was written in October.
Bell’s “escalating” behavior, which Beckham believed was becoming “erratic and unpredictable,” concerned him. Beckham said he had never met Bell.
I was concerned because I believed the letter’s rhetoric was intensifying, turning emotional, and becoming menacing toward me and my family.
“The letters were getting more and more menacing, and it was clear that the female knew where I lived,” she said.
Bell, a Watford resident who was accused of stalking, was spared a criminal prosecution due to a mental illness.
District Judge Michael Snow ruled that Bell, who appeared in court via video connection, must be detained under the Mental Health Act because he was confident that she had committed the crime.
He mentioned the “quite terrifying possibility” that she might have looked up Beckham’s address and the “chilling terms” she had used in her letters.
The judge continued, “He grew afraid for the protection of his family, being worried about what Ms Bell could do next.”