Former American Pickers host Frank Fritz has suffered a stroke.
06.07.2022 - 06:57 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A former TV news anchor told a court her “obsessed” next door neighbour “terrorised” her so badly she has had to move out of her own home.
Isla Traquair suffered panic attacks due to the attentions of Jonathan Barrett, who allegedly appeared at her conservatory window at 7am as she was about to undress and on another occasion “chainsawed” a bush in her garden.
The ex- ITV News and Channel 5 News presenter became terrified of “weird” Barrett, who shocked her soon after she moved in by climbing a wall into her garden and entering her house to offer her a sandwich, the court heard. It was also alleged he would stand outside and stare into the bedroom window of her idyllic 1700s country cottage, on the edge of the Cotswolds.
The 42-year-old journalist became so fearful she spent thousands of pounds fortifying her home with fences and security cameras before fleeing. She has not returned in almost a year.
Isla, originally from Aberdeen, recently worked on the Oprah Winfrey Network in the US and released a true crime podcast The Storyteller: Violent Delights.
Her appointment as 7pm news anchor at Channel 5 in 2008 sparked an age discrimination claim by Selina Scott. Ms Scott reportedly won £250,000 when she was lined up for maternity cover of Natasha Kaplinsky before the younger, “glamorous” Isla got the job instead.
Magistrates heard 53-year-old Barrett “terrorised” Isla between March and September 2021, beginning as soon as she moved into the house near the small Wiltshire town of Corsham.
Isla told the court: “It has affected every part of my life. I can’t live in my home, I have had to stay with friends on their couches. I have had nightmares, it’s affected my relationships. When I was in the house, I barely went out at all
Former American Pickers host Frank Fritz has suffered a stroke.
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