A music fan who left pop singer Billie Piper terrified and tearful after making death threats was convicted yesterday of a campaign of "calculated viciousness". Night after night Juliet Peters (32) left a series of abusive telephone messages at the teenager's record company.
Branding her a "whore and a cow", Peters warned of decapitation, dismemberment, burning, flogging and shooting.
The singer's parents were also threatened with a "bullet through the head", while her brother Charlie (10) received a chilling mention following an outburst of maniacal laughter.
The seven women and five men on the jury, trying Peters at London's Blackfriars Crown Court, took just 95 minutes to decide the unmarried and unemployed telephone stalker had meant her taped calls to be taken seriously.
Rejecting claims she had merely been "messing about" they unanimously convicted her of five sample counts of threatening to kill the entertainer between August 14th and 25th last year.
They also found her guilty of four similar offences aimed at her father, Mr Paul Piper and mother, Ms Mandy Kent.
Peters, of Canning Town, east London, who faces up to 10 years imprisonment, showed no reaction as the verdicts were delivered.