A woman who claims she was stalked by the "real" Martha from Baby Reindeer, Fiona Harvey, has said the Netflix show has made her scared all over again.
Laura Wray, widow of former Labour MP Jimmy Wray, was granted an interim restraining order against Fiona, who previously went by Fiona Muir-Harvey, in 2002. Laura now fears she may be targeted again, after Fiona spoke again of the previous ordeal.
This week, Fiona spoke to Piers Morgan on his YouTube show and denied having stalked Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd, or Laura. She claimed there had been no restraining order too.
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Laura claims that she gave Fiona, who is or was a lawyer, a two-week trial at her Glasgow-based law firm in 1997. But she was fired after a week for alleged abuse.
Fiona then allegedly accused Laura of hitting her disabled child, reporting her to social services. An article from Scotland's Sunday Mail from January 30, 2000 first detailed Laura's claims of stalking against Fiona, who then went as Fiona Muir.
Speaking to the Mirror, Laura said: "I hadn’t thought about her for years. I had forgotten so much of it. Every time someone says a comment, it triggers it again. Memories of things that she did. Some of her actions. It’s pretty distressing. Watching her last night [on Piers], how did I manage to cope with that for so long?
“My partner and I are concerned about what she might do next. Is she going to come after me? She is posting things on Facebook accusing me of all sorts, and of being abusive. You don’t know where it will end.”
She added: "She made some bizarre allegation that I was in my car driving and somehow managed to hit my son who was sitting in the back of the car in the child seat. Eventually it was all dropped but that’s when I went for an interim injunction. Thankfully, it worked. She didn’t defend it. We never heard any more from her.”
On the Netflix series, a fictional article appears, titled: "Sick stalker targets barrister's deaf child."
In real life, Laura is quoted as saying in the 2000 article: "She was only at the firm a week. She kept writing letters saying she was desperate to come and join me, but I subsequently found out she's done the same thing with other female solicitors. She sent me a congratulations card when I got engaged, and sent me so many letters in such familiar terms that I thought I must know her from somewhere."
She claimed Fiona made "lots of threats" to her staff and "phoned up clients making remarks about me which were fairly threatening". Back then, Fiona denied being a stalker and claimed she had only contacted Laura's office to complain about how she was treated, and insisted she resigned – a claim she also made to Piers Morgan this week.
Fiona also denied ever being charged with any offences or going to prison. In the show, Martha pleads guilty to stalking Donny (who is played by and based on Richard Gadd) and is jailed.
But Fiona branded the Netflix show a "work of fiction". She added: "That is completely untrue, very, very defamatory to me, very career-damaging."
She also claimed she had never sent any abusive messages online, and said the interim injunction against her didn't happen as paperwork was put through wrong.
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