Horowitz is the latest in a growing number of famous names to be targeted by stalkers Photo: Oli Scarff
As the scriptwriter for such television series as Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War, Anthony Horowitz is used to chilling scenarios. The popular author has disclosed that he has, though, suffered a wholly unwelcome drama in his own life.
“I briefly had a stalker who threatened to kill me, my children, etc,” says the author of the Alex Rider spy novels. “In the end, the police got involved.”
Horowitz, who turns 56 next month, has two sons, Nicholas and Cassian, by his wife of 24 years, Jill Green, a producer of Foyle’s War.
He is reluctant to elaborate on his painful experience. “I don’t particularly want to talk about it,” he tells Mandrake. “It wasn’t very pleasant, but it’s in the past.”
The author, who is writing the screenplay for the sequel to Steven Spielberg’s film Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, is the son of Mark Horowitz, a political “fixer” for Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minister. Last year, he published a new Sherlock Holmes novel, The House of Silk.
Horowitz is the latest in a growing number of famous names to be targeted by stalkers. David Walliams, the comedian, was bombarded with letters and unwanted gifts by a stalker who threatened to kill him. She was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in 2008.
Horowitz is the latest in a growing number of famous names to be targeted by stalkers. David Walliams, the comedian, was bombarded with letters and unwanted gifts by a stalker who threatened to kill him. She was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in 2008.
A few months earlier, a childhood acquaintance of Samantha Morton, the actress, was made subject to a restraining order after a barrage of “angry” letters, texts and calls.
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