A deluded James Bond fanatic who waged a decade-long stalking campaign against film producer Barbara Broccoli has been handed an indefinite hospital order. Daniel Wilson, 37, admitted to stalking involving serious alarm or distress between April 2022 and February 2025, as well as two counts of breaching a restraining order first imposed in 2017. He also pleaded guilty to affray and criminal damage for smashing car and hospital windows with a hammer in December 2023.
Wilson bombarded Ms Broccoli with hundreds of menacing emails, messages, and voice notes, including an audio message on Valentine's Day last year where he repeatedly sang 'I've got murder on my mind'. The campaign forced the 66-year-old producer to abandon her family home of 20 years and move to a secret location. In a victim impact statement, Ms Broccoli described the ordeal as 'corrosive', stating she lives in constant fear for her personal safety and has had to hire additional security for public events.
Sentencing Wilson at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Christopher Hehir described him as 'profoundly mentally ill' and expressed concerns he would relapse if released into the community. The judge said, 'This poor woman lives in a state of terror and apprehension as a result of Mr Wilson's behaviour.' Wilson, who last year shouted in court 'James Bond cannot be dead', appeared via videolink from Wandsworth Prison.
Prosecutor Arabella MacDonald said Wilson's campaign was 'relentless and disturbing', with messages 'going from the strange to the sexual to the threatening'. Ms Broccoli, who took over creative control of the Bond franchise in 1995, recently handed over the reins to Amazon MGM Studios alongside her half-brother Michael G Wilson. She produced the last nine Bond films, including 2021's No Time To Die, in which James Bond was killed off.
