A BBC presenter recalled feeling ‘vulnerable and exposed’ after a four-year ordeal with a stalker – including the terrifying moment he showed up at her home.
BBC Scotland star Anne McAlpine, 39, faced a stalking nightmare at the hands of now-71-year-old Robert Green.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain today (February 16), Anne reflected on her harrowing experience to Richard Madeley and Kate Garraway.
She reflected how it all began with receiving love letters at BBC Scotland’s Glasgow headquarters.
Anne continued: ‘I didn’t think a huge amount of them at the time, I didn’t find them particularly threatening.
‘Unpleasant and uncomfortable certainly, but a lot of the time, these letters would end up in the bin depending on where I was when I read them.’
BBC Scotland presenter Anne McAlpine opened up about facing a four-year stalking experience
Anne appeared on Monday’s (February 16) Good Morning Britain, speaking to Richard Madeley and Kate Garraway
But after Anne marked getting engaged to now-husband Ken in 2021, the ‘tone of the letters shifted.’
She elaborated: ‘This person seemed to think we were in some sort of relationship.
‘They would comment on the clothes that I wore on TV, the way that I moved, the way that I held my pen.
‘They thought I was giving subliminal messages through the television.’
Anne explained Green appeared upset after she began wearing her engagement ring on-screen and said he would cease sending letters.
In September 2024, Anne discovered Green outside her home upon returning after a late shift.
Anne shared: ‘He approached the car and held eye contact, he was walking towards me quite slowly. Something just felt really off.
‘He didn’t look friendly, he didn’t look like he was looking for directions or was going to speak.
‘He came up to the passenger side of the car and looked in. We locked the doors and drove off.’
‘Then I called my husband to the front door to meet me. That was the first incident outside the house.
Furthermore, Anne revealed how the stalking ‘intensified’ beyond the initial letters she received
‘It sort of intensified a few months after that.’
Anne further explained her neighbours had even encountered Green while he attempted to gain access to her house.
She said: ‘He was buzzing the flat in the middle of the night, he would stand in the middle of the road and just look up at the window..’
Anne added: ‘When I did contact the police, we started piecing things together and I told them about these letters.
‘It just took on a whole other meaning altogether, because it just gave it a different feeling.
‘It went from harassment to a stalking case quite quickly.’
Meanwhile, Green denied the allegations but was found guilty of engaging in a course of conduct which left Anne in fear and alarm between February 2021 and November 2024.
On February 9, Green, of Hillhead in Glasgow, was sentenced to two years’ supervision and imposed a lifetime non-harassment order which prevents him from contacting Anne.
Sheriff Owen Mullan told Green his behaviour had been ‘sinister, unwelcomed and upsetting’ and warned the sentence was a direct alternative to prison.
Anne, who also presents Landward and narrates BBC Scotland’s Home of the Year, said her house’s buzzer was pressed twice in the early hours one night in November 2024.
Anne reflected how the experience all began with receiving love letters at BBC Scotland’s Glasgow headquarters
‘I went to the window and there was a man walking away from the steps,’ she told the court.
‘He looked towards the window which gave me a fright. I backed away. I looked again and he made off.
‘It made me feel quite scared and uncomfortable – someone buzzing at 5am, you assume the worst.’
She reported the behaviour to police after speaking to a neighbour.
Her buzzer had been pressed again and when she looked outside she saw a man with a carrier bag.
‘I felt like it was the same person I saw at 5am but I did not make the connection to the September incident,’ she said.
After these interactions Anne said she was left feeling ‘terrified’.
She continued by saying Green’s stalking had a ‘large impact on the way I live my life and go about my daily business’.
‘It has made me aware of surroundings, being watched. No one should be made to feel unsafe in their own home.
‘That has happened and made me feel uncomfortable with my career choice, which I worked very hard at. It made me feel exposed and vulnerable.’
Sheriff Mullan told Green his behaviour was ‘sinister, unwelcomed and upsetting for your victim. You showed little remorse or insight to your behaviour.
‘As has been pointed out, you have no previous convictions and are a man in his seventies.
‘The nature of your behaviour is such that it has passed the custodial threshold.
However Sheriff Mullan said he had to determine whether there were appropriate ways of dealing with Green other than imprisonment.
‘With some hesitation, I can deal with you today without sending you to prison,’ the sheriff said.
‘I have taken account of what has been said on your behalf, the background report and the time you have spent on remand. This is a direct alterative to custody.’
Green was also convicted of missing two court dates in June and October 2025.
