HATE WATCH | JANUARY 15, 2025

Alexander Barnes-Ross Was Dismissed From Church Staff After Stalking a Female Colleague

Disturbed and unemployed anti-Scientologist-for-profit Alex Barnes-Ross once said that “Scientology is the best way to help people.” But he began attacking the Church after he was dismissed from staff in the wake of his harassment of a female colleague—a dismissal he referred to as “earth-shattering” and “heartbreaking.”

In 2011, after pleading to volunteer for staff at the London Church of Scientology, Barnes-Ross quickly began a campaign of harassment against a female member of the Church’s staff—a young woman for whom, as he later put it, he had “very, very, very, extremely strong feelings” that he could not control.

She unequivocally rejected his advances and made her lack of interest abundantly clear.

“The whole time I’ve known you don’t like me.… I just don’t know what to do or how to carry on because I have literally no [control over] my feelings.”

Nevertheless, “Alex continued to engage in behaviour that made me extremely uncomfortable,” she said. He continued “always trying to get physically closer,” cornering her at her desk. “He would linger far longer than necessary, often with this glazed, Cheshire cat-like grin,” she said. “I felt like a sitting duck and like I couldn’t escape him.”

In a desperate effort to get Barnes-Ross to cease his harassment, she took a photo with a male friend and set it as the background of her phone to give Barnes-Ross the impression that the man was her boyfriend.

Barnes-Ross was undeterred. “The whole time I’ve known you don’t like me, but I’ve just always clinged on to the hope, however small, that you’d just at least give me a chance,” he texted her. “And I just don’t know what to do or how to carry on because I have literally no [control over] my feelings.… It’s something that’s really ruining my life right now.”

“I had no idea how to handle statements that made it sound like I was somehow… keeping him from self-harming,” the woman said. “I remember feeling so overwhelmed by the situation that I ended up crying.”

But Barnes-Ross took his disturbing obsession one step further, stalking the woman’s brother—whom he had never met—on a London train. “My brother noticed someone with red hair just staring and smiling at him with a weird grin on his face,” she said, describing how the man made her brother so uncomfortable that he changed carriages to get away. Barnes-Ross “pursued him and sat down again in the new carriage, still staring and smiling. My brother told me that he felt that he was being stalked.”

When her brother later described the incident, she showed him a picture of Alex Barnes-Ross. “He confirmed it was definitely Alex on the train,” she said.

To this day, the woman has no idea how Barnes-Ross even discovered who her brother was or what he looked like.

Barnes-Ross was dismissed from Church of Scientology staff.

Today, just like the woman he obsessed over and harassed who rejected him, Barnes-Ross harasses and obsesses over—online and in real life—the religion that turned him away as a result of his own misconduct.

The reason is simple: a disturbed, disordered mind, a refusal to face reality and a thirst for blind revenge.

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