Cheryl Tweedy was left in distress after a convicted killer stalked her and turned up at the home she shares with her young son, Bear Payne
Cheryl has been left distraught after being stalked by a convicted killer.
The Girls Aloud singer has recently been putting on a brave face after Daniel Bannister, who was convicted of killing a man at a homeless hostel turned up to her Buckinghamshire home. The man who was jailed for 30 months in 2012 caused the hitmaker “serious alarm”.
Bannister, 49, of no fixed address was found to be “displaying fixated, obsessive, unwanted and repetitive behaviour” towards the mum-of-one. In September, he was jailed for four months for an offence he committed in July and given a three-year restraining order, preventing him from contacting Cheryl, entering Buckinghamshire, or attending her address.
However, just one month ago, court documents revealed that he returned to the home she shares with her young son, Bear, seven. He has now been charged with breaching his restraining order having entered Buckinghamshire on December 10. He reportedly turned up at “an address where you knew or believed Cheryl Tweedy was present,” which constitutes another breach of his order.
He also attempted to contact the Fight For This Love singer, either directly or indirectly which he had previously been banned from doing so. The Sun reports that he pleaded guilty to the three separate offences in December and has now been sent to prison before being sentenced on January 30. During Cheryl’s stint in the West End production of 2:22 A Ghost Story, her team around her were said to be on “red alert” after she was sent disturbing messages with flowers from outside the theatre.
Bannister pleaded guilty in 2012 to manslaughter at Kingston Crown Court after assaulting Rajendra Patel, at a south London YMCA homeless shelter. After an attack in February of the same year, Mr Patel returned to hospital on March 9. He tragically died just one day later.
His cause of death was ruled as a fracture to his left ankle. pulmonary thromboembolism and deep vein thrombosis of the left thermeral vein. Bannister, who at the time was 37, had been due to go on trial for the murder of Mr Patel – but the CPS lowered the charge to manslaughter.
It’s believed that the two individuals who had been living at the homeless shelter had been in a long-term feud with one another when the attack took place. CCTV footage was shown, showing Bannister kicking and punching his victim as he attempted to go towards a lift.
Speaking in 2012, His Honour Judge Nicholas Price said as he jailed Bannister: “This is a tragic case. When you attacked Mr Patel you did not intend to cause serious bodily harm let alone cause death. But the attack undoubtedly goes beyond one punch, it is a sustained attack or more or less 30 to 40 seconds. It is clear you are not a danger to the public, but it is inevitable that you must serve an immediate custodial sentence.”
The Mirror has approached Cheryl’s spokesperson for comment.
