Laura Wray fears for her own safety after she was allegedly targeted by Fiona Harvey for five “hellish” years.
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The widow of former Labour MP Jimmy Wray has spoken out after the fictional portrayal of the stalker on the hit Netflix show.
Laura said she had not thought about Fiona for years but watching her being interviewed by Piers Morgan last night had dragged up old feelings, she told the Mirror.
Laura said: “My partner and I are concerned about what she might do next. Is she going to come after me?
“She is posting things on Facebook accusing me of all sorts, and of being abusive. You don’t know where it will end.
“If she does have any friends, surely they should be trying to help her and calm things down. But she doesn’t want to calm things down. Part of her is really enjoying this. She even had a makeover for Piers Morgan.”
Fiona, originally from Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, denies that she harassed Laura and Jimmy and instead claims that Laura was a political rival of hers.
Fiona, 58, came into contact with the late Glasgow MP, who died aged 78 in 2013, and his solicitor wife Laura, 62, when she was a former Labour Party member.
Laura shared what she remembered of the alleged harassment by Fiona years ago.
She said she gave the Aberdeen Uni law graduate a trainee role at legal firm McPhail Lawrence Partnership in 1997.
But Laura claimed to have sacked Fiona just days later because she was “completely incapable of behaving herself”.
Laura was then allegedly harassed by Fiona — who was known at the time as Fiona Muir.
She claimed she was subjected to disturbing phone calls and an uninvited visit at her home — and was told: “I’m going to get you.”
Laura said she was so frightened she issued workers at her firm with personal alarms as she said her, family and friends were bombarded with emails.
The “final straw” was when she claimed Fiona had reported her to social services.
Laura said: “She made some bizarre allegation that I was in my car driving and somehow managed to hit my son who was sitting in the back of the car in the child seat.
“Eventually it was all dropped but that’s when I went for an interim injunction. Thankfully, it worked. She didn’t defend it. We never heard any more from her.”
Laura served Fiona with an interim interdict to stop her from contacting the lawyer or her politician husband, the Daily Record reported.
Last night on Pier Morgan Uncensored Fiona disputed much of what Laura had said had happened all those years ago.
Fiona claimed that she had been “head-hunted” by Laura because she is “pretty good at employment law”.
She also claims to have walked, not been sacked, from the firm as staff were rude to her.
I didn’t harass that family.
Fiona Harvey
Fiona said it was “nonsense” that Laura had served her with an interdict as she had “messed up” and not properly filed the paperwork.
She claimed that Laura had filed the paperwork because Fiona “was going for parliamentary selection” but never followed through and appeared in court.
In fact, Fiona claimed that it was her intention to file a country-wide interdict on Laura and Jimmy as she was moving to London.
Fiona claimed: “I didn’t harass that family.”
Laura said she was shocked that Netflix “didn’t attempt to hide the stalker’s identity” and that the company had a duty of care to Fiona.
It’s also alleged Fiona had earlier harassed late First Minister Donald Dewar and made a bid to be nominated by Labour for a Holyrood seat.
She was said to have frequently turned up at his constituency surgeries and claimed she was his “special adviser”.
Fiona is alleged to be the inspiration for sinister Martha in Netflix hit Baby Reindeer.
Penned by and starring Scots comic Richard Gadd, 34, from Wormit, Fife, it tells how he was stalked by an obsessed woman he met while working in a London pub while trying to crack the big time.
Fiona says she met him at the Hawley Arms boozer in the city’s Camden and has received threats from fans after being linked with the character.
She claims to be considering legal action against the streaming giant Netflix over the portrayal of the role.
What Fiona claims is true in Baby Reindeer saga
Fiona Harvey – who claims to be the inspiration for the Baby Reindeer character Martha – says there is only a handful of things true in the Netflix show.
The seven-part series, which premiered last month, was written by comedian Richard Gadd and purports to be based on his own personal experiences of being stalked and sexually assaulted.
Gadd, 34, plays a fictionalised version of himself – Donnie Dunn – but Harvey, who was ‘outed’ by internet sleuths within hours of the show being uploaded, is adamant the story is “completely untrue”.
The 58-year-old law graduate said: “It’s a work of hyperbole, as I’ve always said. And there are two true facts in that. His name is Richard Gadd, and he works as a jobbing barman on benefits, in the Hawley Arms. And we met, two or three times…”
On whether she said he looked like a ‘baby reindeer’ toy she had as a child, she added: “I had a toy reindeer and he’d shaved his head, that bit is true, and there were reindeer in the shops because it was Christmas time or something. It was a joke.
“So I have inadvertently penned the name of the show.”
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