The Malevolent Psychosis of Stalker Alex Barnes-Ross—A STAND Exposé
Long before their acts turn criminal, stalkers have a way of telling you exactly who they are.
All you have to do is listen.
A prime example is unemployed bigot Alex Barnes-Ross—who, over a decade ago, began his career of stalking the targets of his obsession.
Whether motivated by “love” or hate, his behaviour is the same. And his targets are always members of a single religion: Scientology.
“I felt like a sitting duck and like I couldn’t escape him.”
Take the young woman who worked at a Church of Scientology, a woman Barnes-Ross had, in his own words, “very, very, very, extremely strong feelings” for. After harassing his victim ceaselessly—even stalking her brother on a London train—Barnes-Ross sent her a disturbing text message in September of 2013. The message included Barnes-Ross’ written admission that he refused to stop harassing her, in spite of her lack of interest, and why.
“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, one day, whenever it may be. And I just don’t know what to do or how to carry on because I have literally no [control over] my feelings,” he wrote. “It’s something that’s really ruining my life right now.”
As he would later do publicly to at least one other female
Scientologist, Barnes-Ross invaded the young woman’s personal space, making her
feel trapped and helpless on a routine basis. She described how “Alex continued
to engage in behaviour that made me extremely uncomfortable,” including “always
trying to get physically closer” and 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.”
The young woman described the dread she felt whenever Barnes-Ross was near, how he would “stand or sit too close for comfort,” how he “left me feeling trapped whenever he was around” and how “he ignored my requests to stop his disturbing and harassing behaviour.”
“It’s definitely become a full-time job,” Barnes-Ross said on December 5, 2023, of his anti-Scientology harassment.
Some 1 in 3 stalkers are repeat offenders. So when the young woman’s account of Barnes-Ross’ serial stalking came to light, true to form, he responded by immediately stalking another female Scientologist.
On January 27, 2025, Barnes-Ross approached his new victim at a public meeting, sat “too close for comfort,” as his first victim put it, and snapped a selfie next to her. Barnes-Ross then drew a heart around the image of him next to his second victim and took to social media to boast how stalking her was the “highlight of my evening, highlight of my year.” Barnes-Ross then professed his “love” for the woman on YouTube, in an obvious effort to harass.
According to the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics, one in seven people age 16 and over in England and Wales have been a victim of stalking, with women disproportionately targeted.
But Barnes-Ross’ blatant stalking and harassment isn’t limited to female Scientologists. One national nonprofit describes how “stalkers are often obsessive in multiple areas of their life.”
Barnes-Ross, once again, serves as a prime example. He has made a career out of engaging in menacing online and real-world harassment of every member of the Scientology religion—not just the unwitting objects of his romantic obsession—all while threatening: “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m on war footing and I’m not f—king about.”
In one YouTube video, Barnes-Ross sadistically relished “how much joy I got” out of “annoying certain people in the Church” through his harassment.
In describing his victims, Scientologists all, Barnes-Ross said: “I’m making their life difficult now, and I got more enjoyment from that than I expected.” According to Merriam-Webster, stalking is “a crime of engaging in a course of conduct directed at a person that serves no legitimate purpose and seriously alarms, annoys or intimidates that person.”
“It’s definitely become a full-time job,” Barnes-Ross said on December 5, 2023, of his anti-Scientology harassment. “I am working pretty much full-time on this,” he reiterated at the end of the same month. On October 30, 2024, nearly one year later, he stated: “I’m going to continue working full-time on this.”
The tragedy stalking can spawn was exposed in all-too vivid detail in a Guardian article on another British stalker Michael Sellers. According to the publication, Sellers “had become ‘obsessed’ with [a colleague] after previously harassing a number of other women. On 18 June 2021 he followed [her] to the field where she kept her horse before fatally stabbing her and taking his own life soon after.”
Law enforcement had previously deemed Sellers “low risk.”
The death of Gracie Spinks at the hands of her stalker ignited a storm of protest across the UK about police failure to take preventive action against those exhibiting the telltale signs—stalkers who may have gotten their start just like Alex Barnes-Ross.
This article is the first in a three-part series on Alex Barnes-Ross. Next, STAND delves into the real reason for Alex Barnes-Ross’ anti-Scientology stalking and psychosis.
