Legal

Restraining order issued against threatening Westwood texter

By | Published on Friday 18 November 2011

Tim Westwood

A Lancashire man has been given a restraining order and twelve month community order after sending threatening text messages to Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood.

43 year old Mark Bulcock send over 100 messages to Westwood via the Radio 1 text system, including one that told the DJ he was a “dead man” and another which said he was  “going to be in a wheelchair”. The “dead man” text was accompanied by another insisting this “wasn’t code”. Westwood himself never actually saw the texts, but producers who were monitoring the text platform called in the police. Bulcock insisted he never meant to threaten Westwood, adding that he was a fan of the DJ.

But the texter was convicted at Reedley Magistrates Court and was sentenced at the Burnley court this week. He was ordered to complete a twelve month community order, and banned from ever contacting Westwood again for life.



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