Several videos in which the Nottingham stalker Alex Belfield makes sexist remarks, including about one of his victims, are still on YouTube despite his recent prison sentence. Belfield, 42, of Mapperley, was recently sentenced to five and a half years for stalking four people, including BBC presenter Jeremy Vine, and had indefinite restraining orders imposed in relation to four other female victims.
Mr Vine has previously said that he has been "disgusted" by the way in which social media companies including YouTube have handled the case. Belfield was once a presenter on BBC Radio Leeds but after leaving because of what he described as a dispute over pay, he spent around a decade pursuing various other avenues in the media industry.
One of these was his YouTube channel, "The Voice of Reason", which he eventually earned money from. YouTube eventually demonetised Belfield's channel, but dozens of his videos still remain on the platform.
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One of these videos features Belfield discussing one of his four female victims. In the video, Belfield comments on her appearance.
In the video, which lasts just over four minutes, Belfield discussed what makes a woman attractive over the age of 35 and makes a racist joke.
In a separate video, Belfield describes another one of his victims as a "nasty, vile, old bag." He also describes her as a "bully" and "venomous snake."
Nottinghamshire Live alerted YouTube's press team to these videos early on Monday (September 27), asking for comment as to why they were still on the platform. At the time of writing, no comment has been received from YouTube and the videos remain online.
In an interview with Nottinghamshire Live, Jeremy Vine previously said that he was considering coming off social media after his experience with Belfield. He said: "I'm quite quiet on social media at the moment because I'm just considering all of that.
"My wife said to me that maybe it's time to step back from it because there's just so much loathsome material and it's all by anonymous accounts - rarely do you see people posting insults under their own name. The attraction to social media initially was that it's so informal and there were no rules, but now we're realising that the biggest problem is that it's so informal and there are no rules."
In relation to why it still hosted The Voice of Reason channel, a spokesperson for YouTube previously said: "Monetisation on The Voice of Reason channel remains suspended for violating our Creator Responsibility policy. If we see that a creator's off-platform behaviour harms our users, community, employees or ecosystem, we take action to protect the community."
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