Mark Revill has been detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital for stalking actress Keira Knightley
A stalker who described himself as a ‘public executioner’ in a terrifying series of tweets to actress Keira Knightley weeks has been detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital.
Mark Revill, 50, left the Oscar-nominated actress fearing for her young daughter’s safety and targeted the Hollywood star’s husband, former Klaxons keyboard player James Righton, on Twitter.
It was just a month after he received a suspended prison sentence and an indefinite restraining order for meowing through her letterbox and writing her creepy letters.
Revill, writing under the name Mark McCattipuss, tweeted: ‘My campaign of disobedience continues in Canonbury tonight. JR and KK are not going to get much help from the police.’
‘If Righton iz play the devil, maybe i iz play public executioner yah? Of course not iz death threat’.
‘Righton got too big for his boots last week. I iz cut him down to size yah?’
‘I iz top dog Yah Righton. Transfiguration yah?’
He later told police messages were a ‘kind of therapy’.
The actress described her terror after Revill repeatedly targeted her home and husband, musician James Righton (right)
Ms Knightley beefed up security at her £3.9m north London home after Revill made her too scared to leave the house.
Revill had repeatedly delivered letters, postcards to her home. He also dropped off a USB containing a song called ‘The Fuzzy Kitty Waltz’ and made meowing noises through the letterbox of her home.
On one visit, Revill drew a large chalk arrow on the paving stones outside her home, pointing to her front door.
The stalker, who also goes by the name Ziggy, sent Ms Knightley a note asking her if she had listened to the music, and also wrote two letters to her mother.
Revill admitted stalking the Pirates of the Caribbean star last December but walked free from court on eight-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months.
As part of the restraining order, Revill was given a mandatory six-month mental health requirement, and a rehabilitation activity requirement of 30 days.
Revill meowed through her letterbox and drew chalk arrows on the pavement by her home
He was also banned from contacting Ms Knightley directly or indirectly, banned from going within 100 metres of her family, banned from going within 100 metres of any address she uses, and an exclusion zone in Islington until further notice.
Revill, of Hackney, east London, has now admitted breaching the restraining order against the actress by sending indecent, obscene or managing messages at Blackfriars Crown Court.
He also admitted one count of producing 324 indecent photographs of children, one of distributing indecent photographs of children and one of sending menacing messages.
Revill has a previous conviction for indecent exposure after sending letters to a female member of staff at a hospital and turning up at her home address completely naked.
He will be detained at the John Howard Centre at the Homerton Hospital, under the Mental Health Act.
The schizophrenic will be detained in a secure unit at Homerton hospital in east London
Revill is currently suffering from paranoid schizophrenia that has been exacerbated by a long history of substance abuse, the court heard.
Two consultant psychologists carried out a report for the judge ahead of sentencing and said that he is at risk of harming others if he is not monitored when taking medication.
Judge Henry Blacksell QC said it was ‘distressing to hear’ how Revill’s behaviour impacted on his victims’ lives and how it manifested.
‘There is no doubt great harm and upset has been caused to those people and their family,’ he said.
‘I have come to the conclusion that it is not just them that are put at serious risk but the general public.’