A TV and fashion tycoon was stalked for more than a decade by a former lover who claimed she had secretly given birth to his love child.
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she → stalk → child
Robert McQueen started bombarding Heather Dixon with social media messages and 2,800 emails nearly 30 years after they had a one-night stand.
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they → start → stand
He then messaged her model niece Olivia Dixon and claimed he was her father as she had his ‘cheekbones’ – even though she was around ten years too young for it to be possible.
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it → message → cheekbones
Bali-based Heather, who runs a Hong Kong-registered sports leisurewear company and a TV shopping channel, told a court McQueen refused to believe she was childless.
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she → base → court
She admitted having a brief fling with McQueen when they were living in Dunoon, Argyllshire, around 1986 but said it lasted a night and not the two years McQueen claimed.
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McQueen → admit → 1986
The 58-year-old told a trial at Perth Sheriff Court: ‘I don’t have children.
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I → tell → children
I’m not married.
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I → ’m → ?
I don’t have a daughter.
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I → have → daughter
Robert McQueen claimed the TV and fashion tycoon had his secret love child
Heather Dixon was harassed by McQueen for years, including sending her over 2,800 messages through social media and email
‘He was saying that I’d ruined his life.
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I → claim → life
He kept saying I had his daughter and didn’t tell him.
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I → keep → him
I remembered that he had reddish hair.
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he → remember → hair
‘The only thing I could think of was I was doing a photoshoot and I was using a model with red hair.
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I → think → hair
I wondered if he assumed this person was his daughter.’
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person → wonder → ?
Olivia, 27, told the court she alerted her parents after having to block McQueen, 62, on various social media channels when he claimed to be her father.
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he → tell → channels
She told the trial she was aware her ‘auntie’ Heather had been stalked for years by a man and she realised it was the same man who was making the bizarre claim to be her father.
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who → tell → claim
The redhead said McQueen contacted her on TikTok after she posted herself doing a ‘trending dance’ while on a bathroom break as she worked for her parents in hospitality.
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she → say → hospitality
She added: ‘I posted “I hope my dad doesn’t see this”.
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dad → add → this
Underneath it Robert McQueen replied “Well, the poor man has now”.
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man → reply → it
It really weirded me out.’
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It → weirde → me
McQueen denied stalking Heather and said he was trying to ‘get the truth’.
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he → deny → truth
The court heard he was warned off by his victim, a solicitor, and the police but continued to harass her for several more years.
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he → hear → years
Fiscal depute Katie Stewart asked McQueen: ‘Why did you continue to ask “hunners” of times whether she had a child with you?’
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she → ask → you
McQueen replied: ‘It wasn’t hundreds.
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It → reply → ?
The main object was to get the truth.’
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object → get → truth
He admitted ‘there was a lot of emails’ after being informed he had sent 2,800.
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he → admit → 2,800
Ms Stewart said: ‘She was clear it was one evening and that evening did not result in a pregnancy.
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evening → say → pregnancy
She did not speak to him for a number of years but was contacted in 2014.
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She thought it was crazy.
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it → think → ?
She didn’t have children and the suggestion was ridiculous.
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suggestion → have → children
‘He was persisting, not only on Facebook, but Instagram, TripAdvisor, Google Maps and very unfortunately, also through her business.
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He would message that he was going to come to Bali and take her home.
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he → message → her
‘As early as 2015 she advised him she didn’t want further contact and didn’t have his child, but she endured a further ten years of torment.
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she → advise → torment
He permeated every part of her life.
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He → permeate → life
‘She was embarrassed that customers could see the comments he was leaving all over the internet.
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She would sometimes receive ten messages a day.
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It was clear nothing was going to stop him.’
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nothing → go → him
Sheriff Jennifer Bain KC found him guilty and said she found the evidence of the two women to be ‘wholly credible and reliable, clear, concise and candid’.
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evidence → find → women
She told McQueen: ‘In contrast, I found your evidence to be almost entirely incredible and unreliable and I reject it in its entirety.
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I → tell → entirety
‘The Crown have proved that for over ten years you engaged in a course of conduct.
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you → prove → conduct
‘You wanted an answer - but it’s clear you only wanted one answer and when it was not forthcoming you made her endure a constant barrage of communications.
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her → want → communications
…and 8 more, not listed.
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