'Real Martha' Fiona Harvey's 'vile emails to Keir Starmer revealed' (2024)

Baby Reindeer’s ‘real Martha’ Fiona Harvey reportedly used derogatory slurs and hounded Sir Keir Starmer with hundreds of vile emails, and was even reported to the police three years ago, it’s been claimed.

The Netflix series, created by Richard Gadd and said to be based on a true story, follows his character Donny Dunn meeting awoman named Martha (played by Jessica Gunning), who develops an obsession with him and begins stalking him.

After a seemingly friendly encounter, her actions turn incredibly sinister, after she begins waiting outside his house, sending him thousands of emails, and even harassing his parents and turning violent towards his girlfriend.

Following the release of the seven-part series, comedian Gadd urged viewers not to try and uncover Martha’s real identity, though Harvey has now spoken out several times, including in an explosive Piers Morgan interview.

During the Uncensored interview, she was grilled on the emails she sent and she described the show as ‘a work of fiction, a work of hyperbole’, insisting: ‘Iwanted to rebut that completely on this show – I am not a stalker, I have not been to jail, I’ve not got injunctions – it is complete nonsense.’

However, after internet sleuths found several social media posts which were referenced in Baby Reindeer, and comedian Janey Godley revealed she had also been hounded by the Scottish woman, it has now been claimed Sir Keir has been at the receiving end of some of her messages, several of which have since been reported by The Sun.

Harvey allegedly sent the Labour leader a shocking 276 messages in less than eight months, with some of those including ‘vicious attacks’ on him and his family.

She is said to have called him a ‘non job’, ‘a stupid little boy’, and a ‘useless barrister’, and even reportedly said she would target him with complaints to standards watchdogs and wrote: ‘Your life won’t be living.’

In another email, she allegedly calls Sir Keir a ‘nefarious little creep’, and uses a derogatory slur towards him, saying: ‘Never mind we coukd have had Fg Starmer as health minister.’

She also reportedly sent an email which contained a video of her walking around her flat during lockdown, and allegedly launched a racist tirade, saying, amongst other vile alleged comments reported by The Sun: ‘No one is going to put up with these cheeky Somalian s*** all up and down the stairwells takingdrugsallsummer“No one will put up with the Muslim so called women s*** in the trees either.’

One email also reportedly used a disabled slur against Sir Keir’s wife Victoria and added: ‘God she looks dreadful. Dreadful,’ elsewhere calling her ‘ugly’ and saying their children need to be ‘taken into care’.

In another, she allegedly called Angela Rayner an ‘imbecile’, and also reportedly tore into Boris Johnson while he was Prime Minister, calling him an ‘Eton t**t’.

The publication claims the hundreds of email were sent to his MP email address between January and August 2020, and were all signed off with ‘Sent from my iPhone’, another detail brought up from the Netflix documentary as Martha didn’t actually have an iPhone.

In a statement sent to Metro.co.uk, the Met Police said: ‘Officers are aware of contact made towards an individual and this has been reviewed by specialist officers. The case remains under review.

‘Detectives from the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command are in regular contact with representatives for the complainant.’

Responding to the publication regarding claims she was reported to police, Harvey said: ‘It’s a lot of rubbish and I’m not going to be making a comment.’

During the Uncensored interview earlier this month, Harvey said she had six email addresses and multiple phones, and denied several parts of the Netflix series, including sexually assaulting Gadd, assaulting his girlfriend or launching at him across a bar – something Martha did in the show.

She later spoke out and saidshe felt ‘used’ by Morgan, telling theDaily Record: ‘I have my own thoughts on it that I’d like to keep to myself but I wouldn’t say I was happy. It was very rapid to try to trip me up. He did it fast paced to catch me off guard.’

‘It seemed to me that I was set up. I feel a bit used,’ Harvey added.

Meanwhile, Morgan said she was treated exactly as any other guest and the payment was standard, saying: ‘But we gave her the same amount that we give 95% of our guests. We don’t discuss terms but we pay for a nice hair cut, a car and everything else,’ and reportedly described the interaction as a ‘sparring match’ between the pair, for which his interviewee claims she was only paid £250, andhe ‘didn’t believe everything she said’.

‘But that doesn’t mean she can’t be a victim here too,’ he added.

Metro.co.uk has approached Sir Keir’s office and the Met Police for comment.

Baby Reindeer isavailable to stream on Netflix

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