Winchester man jailed for stalking Billie Piper

A 49-year-old man from Winchester, Hampshire, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for repeatedly breaching a court order designed to protect actress Billie Piper from his obsessive and unwanted contact. Philip Jerome was jailed at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court on August 25, 2026, after pleading guilty to four counts of breaching a stalking prevention order.

The court heard that Jerome had been subject to the order since July 21, 2022, due to his sustained campaign of harassment against the former Doctor Who star. The breaches occurred in December 2025, when police examined his devices on December 27 and discovered four images of Piper saved on his phone. Officers also found he had tagged 11 posts and images, including AI-generated pictures, relating to the actress on the social media platform X across four separate days earlier that month.

Prosecutor Anisa Alrubaie detailed that this included a comment posted on December 7, 2025, in which Jerome wrote about an image from the GQ awards, stating it made him "fall for Ms Piper" and adding a remark about her appearance. The court was told that Piper's X account is managed by her personal assistant, who does not generally...