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The Victims Commissioner for London has described the sentence handed down to her stalker of 19 years as "an insult".

Ms Waxman said her battle with her stalker "had a huge impact" on her life and that stalking "is a crime of psychological terror."

She is calling for a review of the stalking laws as she says they're not working for the victims who she says are treated appalling by the criminal justice system and that they are considered an afterthought.

In October Elliot Fogel, 47, was found guilty for a sixth time of breaching a lifetime restraining order designed to stop him contacting Claire Waxman.

In 2021 there were 673,129 stalking and harassment offences recorded by police in England and Wales, according to the ONS. The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, a charity which supports stalking victims, estimates that 0.1% of cases leads to a conviction.

Interview by Victoria Derbyshire.