{"id":24980,"date":"2025-03-14T15:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-jailed-for-stalking-girls-alouds-cheryl-tweedy-in-buckinghamshire\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:17:56","slug":"man-jailed-for-stalking-girls-alouds-cheryl-tweedy-in-buckinghamshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-jailed-for-stalking-girls-alouds-cheryl-tweedy-in-buckinghamshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for stalking Girls Aloud’s Cheryl Tweedy in Buckinghamshire"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Cheryl Tweedy said she “immediately panicked” upon seeing Daniel Bannister at her home<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A man who stalked Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy has been jailed for 16 weeks after leaving the pop star “terrified” when he turned up at her home again.<\/p>\n

Daniel Bannister had already been jailed for targeting the singer twice at her home, in the Chalfonts area of Buckinghamshire, when he returned on 10 December.<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old, <\/b>who was convicted of manslaughter in 2012, had been given a restraining order for turning up in January last year and saying “it’s Daniel, I’ve come to get Cheryl” and then returning in July asking for a glass of wine.<\/p>\n

After showing up in December, he admitted harassment<\/a> and the breach and attempted breach of his restraining order, and has now been sentenced again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tweedy said she “immediately panicked” and “feared for my safety” after seeing him on a security camera at her property in December, High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court heard.<\/p>\n

He had been given a four-month jail term in September for the initial offences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Daniel Bannister left Tweedy feeling “unsafe in her own home”, the prosecution said<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Jailing him again, District Judge Arvind Sharma also replaced Bannister’s existing three-year restraining order with a new one that would run indefinitely.<\/p>\n

The judge said Bannister, of no fixed address, knew the singer was “very distressed and upset” by what he was doing.<\/p>\n

He added that no mental health issue had been diagnosed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tweedy, who was not present in court, said in a statement she was able to watch footage of Bannister via her phone after he rang her doorbell in December.<\/p>\n

She added that she “immediately panicked” and “feared for my safety”.<\/p>\n

“I knew this was Daniel because I have had previous incidents where Daniel has come to my property,” she told police at the time.<\/p>\n

“I was concerned he was looking for a way into the property.”<\/p>\n

Tweedy told officers her son, Bear, was due back from the cinema, and she did not want him to see the stalker, the court heard.<\/p>\n

“I want to protect my child from any harm,” she added.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Datta Ryan said Tweedy felt “violated, terrified and unsafe in her own home”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Girls Aloud (Cheryl Tweedy, second from left) have had four UK number one singles, the first being Sound of the Underground in 2002<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The court was told Bannister used an intercom at Tweedy’s home in January 2024 and claimed he had “come to get Cheryl”.<\/p>\n

Six months later, he again called at the house and said he was “really thirsty, I just want a glass of wine please”.<\/p>\n

The most recent incident took place three weeks after Tweedy attended the funeral One Direction star Liam Payne<\/a> in Amersham in Buckinghamshire. The pair had had a child together but had split up.<\/p>\n

Payne died after falling from a balcony<\/a> in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cheryl Tweedy attended Liam Payne’s funeral at St Mary’s Church in Amersham on 20 November<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Colin Mackrell, mitigating, told the judge his client Bannister “knows he should not have done what he did”. <\/p>\n

“He has formed in his mind an affection for her,” said Mr Mackrell.<\/p>\n

The barrister argued the stalker did not pose a “direct threat” to Tweedy.<\/p>\n

Bannister asked the judge if he could read a statement to the court, but was advised not to by his lawyer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In an unrelated case, Bannister had also been jailed for killing Rajendra Patel, 48, at a south London YMCA homeless shelter in 2012.<\/p>\n

Mr Patel died 15 days after he was attacked in Croydon on 21 February that year.<\/p>\n

He was taken to hospital where he was treated for bruising and swelling to the left side of his face, a broken nose and a fractured ankle.<\/p>\n

Three weeks later he died of a pulmonary thromboembolism, due to deep venous thrombosis of the left femoral vein due to a recent fracture of his left ankle, which was treated with a plaster cast.<\/p>\n

Bannister admitted manslaughter and was jailed for two and a half years at Kingston Crown Court.<\/p>\n

Following the latest sentencing at High Wycombe, the Crown Prosecution Service’s Kathleen O’Callaghan said: “The unwanted attention of offenders like Daniel Bannister can leave victims feeling alarmed and fearful.<\/p>\n

“Bannister plainly disregarded a previous restraining order, and the Crown Prosecution Service argued these deliberate breaches were made more serious by the fact that they were committed so shortly after the order was made.”<\/p>\n

Bannister has already spent three months in prison on remand awaiting sentence and be could be released in a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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