A FORMER senior civil servant has been found guilty of stalking an ex-colleague after camping outside Whitehall Offices and spreading false information online.
Besotted Ray Israel-Wilkinson declared her love for Alex Wilkinson after working with him at the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport.
Last month, prosecutor Jennifer Gatland said Ms Israel-Wilkinson had gone to the lengths of changing her name and had posted 104 love songs dedicated to her ex-colleague on social media.
She outlined how Israel-Wilkinson, formerly known as Rayner Sultan, had sat outside the department’s office on May 27, 2021, with a placard which read: “This is not a protest. Waiting for my Wilko.”
Ms Gatland said: “This caused significant distress for Mr Wilkinson who had to change his routine, entrances and so forth.
“The defendant has also created social media pages claiming they are married and declaring her love for him.
“It seems she has also changed her name from Rayner Sultan to Ray-Israel-Wilkinson to give the impression they are married.”
Mr Wilkinson told Westminster Magistrates’ Court that his stalker first began to contact him shortly after leaving the department and insisted on meeting in person.
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“I wasn’t comfortable because we didn’t have any meaningful relationship. She is a former colleague,” he said.
“I felt quite violated. She was writing about how she was in love with me and insinuating that we’d had some romantic connection when we hadn’t.”
On social media, Mr Wilkinson, a deputy director for analysis, was shocked to discover a Twitter page with 5,000 followers.
On the account his stalker had claimed that GCHQ was trying to stop them from being together.
The bio on the account read: “Please help my @alexwilko85 contact me. He is forced by evil souls to ostracise me. He loves me as much as I love him. My Wilko is unhappy. Please.”
Israel-Wilkinson also had a second Twitter account with a pinned tweet of 104 love songs dedicated to Mr Wilkinson.
“I felt quite violated,
Alex Wilkinson
She also used platforms including LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram to profess her love.
“The LinkedIn account was a professional account but at some point she changed it to talk about me,” Mr Wilkinson added.
“She set up Twitter to talk about her conversion from Islam to Judaism. Facebook and Instagram I believe were set up solely to talk about me.”
The stalker then upped the ante when she began turning up at the Whitehall office and sending Mr Wilkinson emails claiming that she was homeless.
“She talked about being assaulted in train stations, she talked about gangs that had been pursuing her doing weird stuff,” said Mr Wilkinson.
“There was a gang trying to turn people into cute dogs. I was increasingly worried.”
Israel-Wilkinson was eventually arrested for harassing Mr Wilkinson but defied her bail conditions by continuing to sit outside the office with a placard.
In August 2021, she was sectioned and taken to hospital where she continued to email her ex-colleague.
Appearing in court, Israel-Wilkinson denied stalking Mr Wilkinson, between June 16 2021 and October 20 2021.
She did not attend her trial and was convicted last month in her absence by District Judge Timothy Godfrey.
This week she reportedly refused to attend her hearing for the second time as she continues to be evaluated by the court’s mental health team.
A sentence has yet to be decided.
