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n alleged stalker who believed he was dating Ashley Roberts blew kisses at the Pussycat Dolls singer and routinely loitered outside her place of work, a court has heard.
Lewis Langley, 47, is accused of obsessively pursuing the former Strictly Come Dancing star over five months last year and is now facing two stalking allegations.
It is said he regularly waited outside the Heart radio studios in Leicester Square where Ms Roberts works as a DJ, turning up early in the morning and when her show was due to end, and was also seen performing exercise routines.
Croydon magistrates court was told Langley once tried to blow kisses at Ms Roberts when she was being driven away from the studios.
Langley, who denies stalking, is also accused of waiting outside a south London residential building where he believed Ms Roberts lived, telling the security manager that she is his “girlfriend”.
“During the months of May and July, the defendant is described as repeatedly and routinely attending the workplace of Ms Roberts around the time she was starting work”, said prosecutor Alex Alawode.
He said Langley was “seen loitering nearby” at 6am, while “watching as she attended, and was also present at the time when she was leaving the building”.
He said the defendant was caught on CCTV “performing exercise routines outside the building, in the form of high kicks and running”.
The prosecutor went on: “The defendant attended an address in the Borough area of London, an address at which he believed Ms Roberts lived.”
Langley is said to have left items outside the address, then called the police a few days later when he found the items were missing.
“He said he left them outside his girlfriend’s house”, said Mr Alawode. “Asked who his girlfriend was, he gave Ms Roberts’ name.”
Langley alleged claimed to have contacted the singer on social media and insisted she was “ignoring him”, the court heard.
The building’s security manager, Anna Olivera, says Langley turned up “regularly”, and was seen “sitting in a chair staring directly into the building”, claiming he was “waiting for his girlfriend”.
The court heard Langley was detained by police and then in a mental health facility for a month, but continued the stalking behaviour when he was released in October.
Ms Alawode said Langley “followed” Ms Roberts as she got into a car outside her workplace, and was “blowing kisses into the window, believed to be directly aimed at Ms Roberts”.
The court heard Langley argues he was not stalking Ms Roberts and had “good reason” for being at her workplace and the residential building.
Ms Roberts, a former Dancing on Ice judge and I’m a Celebrity contestant, has been given permission to give evidence via videolink, after telling the court she is concerned about being in the same room as Langley.
Langley, of Thornton Heath, denies two counts of stalking, against Ms Roberts and Ms Olivera.
The trial continues.
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