Kate Ritchie’s stalker hell: Actress and radio star is forced to call the cops after
Former Home and Away star Kate Ritchie copped ‘hundreds’ of sexually explicit texts and videos from a stranger and was forced to call the police when he flew from Perth to see her, a court has heard.
The radio presenter and actress was forced to call NSW Police last week when she received a message from Gerard Ryan, 71, which said he was in the suburb where she lives and hoped to find her.
Kate Rictrhie has been plagued by a stalker who has sent her ‘hundreds’ of sexually explicit texts and videos
He had sent her ‘hundreds’ of messages from February 2022 through to April 2023, including ‘numerous naked photographs of the accused and numerous videos of the accused masturbating’, police facts, seen by the Daily Telegraph, claimed.
Ryan was arrested at a park in Sydney‘s eastern suburbs last Wednesday and charged with stalking, which he pleaded guilty to. He was also hit with an apprehended violence order banning him from approaching Ritchie.
Ryan is now banned from contacting or going near the actor turned radio star after Waverley Local Court heard about the campaign of harassment he waged at Ritchie.
Ryan’s obsession with the TV star began last year when he started posting on her social media accounts comments including ‘Hello Kate … I love you so much’.
Gerard Ryan, 71, sent Ritchie very sexually explicit messages and when she didn’t reply the harassment escalated
One of the messages he sent to the former Home and Away star said that he wanted to kiss her and ‘I love you madly’
Another post said: ‘I just want to kiss you my heart is pounding for you I love you madly’.
Ryan posted very explicit messages of a sexual nature about Ritchie on his own social media pages, and when she didn’t respond it got worse.
The pensioner bombarded Ritchie with private messages and videos of a sexual nature on Facebook and Instagram.
According to the police facts tendered in court, between 6 February 2022 and 25 April 2023, Ryan ‘has sent hundreds of messages to the complainant (Ritchie).
‘In these messages, the accused has sent several sexually explicit messages … included in the messages are numerous naked photographs of the accused and numerous videos of the accused masturbating.’
The police facts also indicate Ryan had said he wanted to marry Ritchie and referenced her daughter, saying he would make ‘a good stepfather’.
In February he sent a letter to her work address which included a Valentines Day card.
IN a subsequent letter he included a photograph of himself and another of a church with the following inscribed on the back: ‘The church we could get married one day. It’s on Rottnest Island’.
Ryan posted this along with a $200 gift card, saying it was to replace her lawnmower, which Ritchie had mentioned on her Nova radio show in March that the machine had blown up.
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