A civil servant who was convicted of stalking an ex-colleague after camping out in Whitehall with a ‘Waiting for my Wilko’ placard hoping to meet him has refused to attend her sentence hearing for the second time.
Economist Ray Israel-Wilkinson, 33, obsessively declared her love for Alex Wilkinson on social media and in public after working with him at the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport.
A court heard that the stalker dedicated 104 love songs to her victim on Twitter, and even changed her surname from Sultan to Israel-Wilkinson to give the impression that they are married.
Mr Wilkinson said she began to contact him shortly after leaving the department and insisted on meeting with him face-to-face.
When the ‘violated’ public servant looked her up on social media, he found a Twitter page with 5,000 followers where she claimed GCHQ was trying to stop them from being together. The bio on the account reads: ‘Please help my @alexwilko85 contact me. He is forced by evil souls to ostracise me. He loves me as much as I love him. My Wilko is unhappy. Please.’
Israel-Wilkinson, who was convicted in her absence and is currently detained in HMP Bronzefield, has now refused to attend the sentencing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court via video-link.
A letter from prison official said: ‘She flat out refused she didn’t give a reason just that she didn’t want to.’ She had also refused to attend the hearing on the link from prison on Monday.
Ray Israel-Wilkinson (pictured) declared her love for Alex Wilkinson after working with him at the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport
When Mr Wilkinson (pictured) looked her up on social media, he found a Twitter page with 5,000 followers where she claimed GCHQ was trying to stop them from being together
Jennifer Gatland, prosecuting, said Israel-Wilkinson (pictured) sat outside the department’s Parliament Street office with a homemade placard which said: ‘Waiting for my Wilko’
100 Parliament Street, where the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is based
A member of the court mental health team said: ‘She’s been seen by a psychiatrist in the prison and in a conversation between court psychiatrists here and psychiatrist based in custody, it’s basically looking like she is quite unwell and potentially not well enough to take part in proceedings.
‘She has refused the last couple of times to take part in the court process…’.
Jennifer Gatland, prosecuting, had said Israel-Wilkinson sat outside the department’s Parliament Street office on 27 May last year with a homemade placard which said: ‘Waiting for my Wilko’.
‘This caused significant distress for Mr Wilkinson who had to change his routine, entrances and so forth,’ Miss Gatland said.
‘The defendant has also created social media pages claiming they are married and declaring her love for him. It seems she has also changed her name from Rayner Sultan to Ray-Israel-Wilkinson to give the impression they are married.’
Israel-Wilkinson refers to herself as ‘Wilko’s Ray’ on her Twitter profile and calls him her ‘king’.
Mr Wilkinson told the court last month that Israel-Wilkinson began to contact him shortly after leaving the Department for Media, and insisted on meeting with him face-to-face.
‘I wasn’t comfortable because we didn’t have any meaningful relationship,’ said Mr Wilkinson. ‘She is a former colleague.
Israel-Wilkinson (pictured) has a second Twitter account with a pinned tweet of 104 love songs dedicated to Mr Wilkinson, the court heard
Israel-Wilkinson’s Twitter account is titled ‘Alexander Wilkinson is my King’ and begs followers to help her get in touch with Mr Wilkinson
It also features a pinned video message where she asks Mr Wilkinson to get in touch with her
‘I felt quite violated. She was writing about how she was in love with me and insinuating that we’d had some romantic connection when we hadn’t.’
When Mr Wilkinson looked her up, he found Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram accounts obsessing over him.
‘The LinkedIn account was a professional account but at some point she changed it to talk about me,’ said Mr Wilkinson.
‘She set up Twitter to talk about her conversion from Islam to Judaism. Facebook and Instagram I believe were set up solely to talk about me.’
At the time she began turning up at the Whitehall office she was also sending Mr Wilkinson emails saying that she was homeless and describing her experiences.
‘She talked about being assaulted in train stations, she talked about gangs that had been pursuing her doing weird stuff,’ said Mr Wilkinson. ‘There was a gang trying to turn people into cute dogs. I was increasingly worried.
In August 2021 Wilkinson (pictured) was sectioned and taken to hospital
‘It was quite difficult because you could see she was clearly in a bad mental state. It’s difficult to see someone who is suffering and associating that with you and you can’t really do anything to help them.’
Israel-Wilkinson was arrested for harassing Mr Wilkinson but continued to sit outside the office despite bail conditions prohibiting her with banners and placards saying: ‘This is not a protest. Waiting for my Wilko.’
In August 2021 she was sectioned and taken to hospital where she continued to email Mr Wilkinson.
Israel-Wilkinson’s LinkedIn profile states: ‘Alex Wilkinson is my King (Mrs… Wilkinson).
‘Wife of Alex Wilkinson. Economist. The spooks spy on me as a person of “intelligence value” so I’ve stopped being intelligent until they return my husband to me. Until then, I’m offline so I will NOT READ your messages.’
Israel-Wilkinson, of Milton Keynes, denied stalking Mr Wilkinson, between June 16, 2021 and October 20, 2021.
She did not attend her trial last month and was convicted in her absence by District Judge Timothy Godfrey, who issued a warrant for her arrest.
Sentencing was adjourned until March 10 when a psychiatrist is likely to attend amid concerns that jail is not the right place for her.
