Whitehall stalker to appeal

An economist who changed her name to pretend she was married to the civil servant she was stalking will appeal against her conviction in October, a court heard. Economist Ray Israel-Wilkinson, 33, became obsessed with Alex Wilkinson after working with him at the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport. She would hang around his office with banners and placards stating: ‘Waiting for my Wilko.’ Israel-Wilkinson started a Twitter page with 5,000 followers where she claimed GCHQ was trying to stop…