Keira Knightley’s deranged stalker locked away in psychiatric hospital

A deranged stalker who described himself as a ‘public executioner’ in a series of terrifying tweets to Keira Knightley weeks was detained at a psychiatric hospital indefinitely.

Mark Revill, 50, left the Oscar nominated actress fearing for her young daughter’s safety when he posted images of a naked girl on Twitter.

Using his Twitter handle Mark McCattipuss he also targeted the Hollywood star’s husband, former Klaxons keyboard player James Righton.

It was just a month after he received a suspended prison sentence and an indefinite restraining order for meowing through her letterbox and writing her creepy letters.

Revill tweeted: ‘My campaign of disobedience continues in Canonbury tonight. JR and KK are not going to get much help from the police.’

‘James Righton viewed #keiraknightley as an “asset” at the beginning’.

‘If Righton iz play the devil, maybe i iz play public executioner yah? Of course not iz death threat’.

‘Righton got too big for his boots last week. I iz cut him down to size yah?’

‘I iz top dog Yah Righton. Transfiguration yah?’

‘Righton is just a glorified chastity belt’

‘And still The Villain Righton makes his wife suffer’.

Two days later he posted: ‘I iz bollocking resigning from my reign of terror against the whore and the devil. Really dont see why i should have to. F—-k the c—-s.’

Ms Knightley beefed up security at her £3.9m north London home after Revill made her too scared to leave the house.

In a twisted scene from Love Actually, in which Ms Knightley famously gets told by Andrew Lincoln he loves her through a series of cue cards on her doorstep, Revill repeatedly delivered letters, postcards to her home.

He also dropped off a USB containing a song called ‘The Fuzzy Kitty Waltz’ he had written for the Pride and Prejudice star, 32.

He made meowing noises through the letterbox of her home.

On one visit Revill hung around on the pavement before drawing a large chalk arrow on the paving stones pointing to her front door.

The feline obsessed stalker, who also goes by the name Ziggy, sent Ms Knightley a note asking her if she had listened to the music, and also wrote two letters to her mother.

Revill admitted stalking the Pirates of the Caribbean star last December claiming he was in love with her although he had been approaching her primarily to promote his music.

In an emotional impact statement read to the court on that occasion Miss Knightley said:

‘This man has caused a lot of distress and panic.

‘I’m scared every time I go outside.’

She turned her home into high-tech fortress and initially instructed civil lawyers to approach Revill and ask him to leave her alone.

Ms Knightley said in the statement: ‘We loved living in this borough for two years.

‘My family enjoyed visiting local shops and playing in local parks, and being close to the heartbeat of London.

‘We are now looking to move house outside of the borough.

‘We had hoped our child would go to school here.

‘When I return home I have to look behind me concerned, I don’t know who might be in shadows.’

Ms Knightley, who added state of art CCTV and high security shutters, said: ‘I’ve had fanmail through the post before but never has it been this strange or concerning.

‘The thought of him being on the other side of the door has left me quite shaken.

‘If I was with my child we wouldn’t have been able to run away easily.

‘The thought of my daughter being at risk is my worst nightmare.’

He was then handed eight-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months.

As part of the restraining order, Revill was given a mandatory six-month mental health requirement, and a rehabilitation activity requirement of 30 days.

He was also banned from contacting Ms Knightley directly or indirectly, banned from going within 100 metres of her family, banned from going within 100 metres of any address she uses, and an exclusion zone in Islington until further notice.

Revill, of Glebe Road, Hackney, east London, admitted breaching the restraining order against the actress by sending indecent, obscene or managing messages at Blackfriars Crown Court.

He also admitted one count of producing 324 indecent photographs of children, one of distributing indecent photographs of children and one of sending menacing messages.

Revill has a previous conviction for indecent exposure after sending letters to a female member of staff at a hospital and turning up at her home address completely naked.

He limped into the dock today (mon) wearing a cream coloured fleece flanked by one dock officer and three members of hospital staff.

Revill is currently suffering from paranoid schizophrenia that has been exacerbated by a long history of substance abuse.

Two consultant psychologists carried out a report for the judge ahead of sentencing and said that he is at risk of harming others if he is not monitored when taking medication.

He has previous convictions for exposure in 2011, two separate offences of battery in 2013 and 2014, plus an offence of shoplifting and criminal damage in the same year.

In his police interview where he admitted his behaviour he told the officers that his Twitter messages were a ‘kind of therapy’.

In a victim impact statement the actor said that she could see his behaviour had changed and he became more ‘angry’ and ‘obsessive’ where his postings ‘escalated’ and involved her family.

She said: ‘There was a message from Mark Revill that mentioned that he was coming to our area this evening and there was nothing that police could do – I believed that he was capable of carrying out this threat.’

She added that she and her husband had a very difficult decision to make about moving house and had hoped that after his conviction he would have got help as he is ‘unwell’.

‘This recent episode has forced us to rethink us our position,’ she said.

Judge Henry Blacksell QC, sentenced Revill to an indefinite hospital order today (mon), a sexual harm prevention order and an indefinite restraining order.

He also ordered the forfeiture and destruction of his iPad.

The judge said he was left in no doubt from the ‘careful clinical assessments’ that Revill suffers from a mental health condition.

Judge Blacksell said it was ‘distressing to hear’ how Revill’s behaviour impacted on his victims’ lives and how it manifested.

‘There is no doubt great harm and upset has been caused to those people and their family,’ he said.

‘I have come to the conclusion that it is not just them that are put at serious risk but the general public.

‘He remains extremely vulnerable for further periods of relapsing and I have absolutely no doubt under careful consideration that it is appropriate and in the interest of the public that a restriction order is made.

‘It allows for a structure to be in place which may well allow mean that he is able to deal with his future life when considered appropriate for him to be managed in the community.’

Revill will be detained at the John Howard Centre at the Homerton Hospital, under sections 37 and 41 of the Mental Health Act, 1983.
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