Cheryl’s stalker terror as obsessed killer fan left messages and flowers outside West End show
CHERYL’S full stalking nightmare has been revealed after an obsessed killer fan left messages and flowers outside the West End show she was performing in.
The Sun exclusively revealed how the mum-of-one suffered terrifying harassment by a convicted killer who also turned up at the home she shares with her son Bear.
The singer has secretly been facing a stalking hell which continued even after the tragic death of her former partner Liam Payne.
Daniel Bannister, who killed a man in an attack at a homeless hostel, has been convicted of causing the Girls Aloud star “serious alarm” after going to her country mansion in Buckinghamshire.
But he didn’t stop there.
It has also been revealed that Cheryl had to increase her security when she was performing in 2:22 A Ghost Story on the West End last year.
Her team were said to be on “red alert” after she was left menacing messages with flowers outside the theatre.
Bannister has now been found to be “displaying fixated, obsessive, unwanted and repetitive behaviour” towards the singer which he knew would cause her distress.
He was put behind bars for four months in September for an offence in July and handed a three-year restraining order meaning he cannot contact Cheryl, enter Buckinghamshire, or attend her address.
But in December he is alleged to have returned to her house in the country she shares with seven-year-old Bear, court documents show.
Bannister, who has no fixed address, was charged with breaching his restraining order by entering the county of Buckinghamshire on December 10.
He is then said to have turned up at “an address where you knew or believed Cheryl Tweedy was present”, which is another separate breach.
He also attempted to contact Cheryl either directly or indirectly, which he was prohibited from doing.
Bannister pleaded guilty to the three offences in December and has been sent back to prison before his sentencing on January 30.
Convicted killer
In 2012 Bannister pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Kingston Crown Court of 48-year-old Rajendra Patel at a south London YMCA shelter.
Following the alleged attack in February of that year, Mr Patel returned to hospital on March 9 and died the following day.
A post-mortem report gave the cause of death as pulmonary thromboembolism, deep vein thrombosis of the left thermeral vein, and a fracture to the left ankle.
Bannister, who was 37 at the time, was due to go on trial for murder but the Crown Prosecution Service accepted the lesser plea of manslaughter.
The two men, who both lived at the shelter, were said to have an ongoing feud at the time of the attack.