Shara Nelson stalking Pete Tong

Radio 1 veteran DJ Pete Tong has been granted a restraining order against Massive Attack’s best-known singer Shara Nelson, after a court heard she harassed him repeatedly with nuisance calls claiming to be both his manager and wife.

The hugely talented British singer performed on Massive Attack’s two greatest hits Unfinished Sympathy and Safe from Harm in the early 90s and was notable for being both humble, friendly, and unusually quiet and shy.

Appearing in a West London court this week, however, she appeared to be still disturbed, giving her surname to the court as ‘Tong’. The Sun said she’s been ordered to refrain from contacting the multi-millionaire radio star indefinitely and ordered to do 80 hours’ community service. (The Sun: http://bit.ly/nhsLiT )

Details of the tragic case emerged soon after fellow nightlife celebrity Paris Hilton revealed she was considering moving out of her Malibu mansion after stalker James Rainford was arrested peering into her windows.

'Yeah I am scared. There's so many crazy people out there... I'm always watching behind my back,” she told reporters, “'Especially when it's your home and it's your private space where no one's supposed to come - you feel really violated,” she added. (Daily Mail: http://bit.ly/rcl9Bg )

Also in America news portal Mother Jones reported on the growing trend of millionaires hiring personal bodyguards, in response to growing inequality and fears of being targeted by ordinary people.

"There has never been this kind of populist anger before," Kroll director Eden Mendel told the Financial Times. "When executives are revealed on television with bonuses they become a target,” he added. (Alternet: http://bit.ly/pIMcPR )

Naomi Klein touched on the topic in an analysis of Britain’s riots this week, criticizing authorities for failing to punish the bankers who caused the economic crash instead ‘forcing sacrifices on the most vulnerable’ such as ‘firing public sector workers, scape-goating teachers, closing libraries (and) upping (student) tuitions.’

“In early July, the Wall Street Journal, citing a new poll, reported that 94 percent of millionaires were afraid of "violence in the streets.” This, it turns out, was a reasonable fear,” she said. (The Nation.com: http://bit.ly/pg5lSh )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQdgZfC2zmw (Share on Top of the Pops in 1991)

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