t’s telling when your own mum removes all traces of your existence from her website after online evidence emerges demonstrating the kind of serial stalker and harasser you are.
On January 15, the anti-discrimination league for the Scientology religion, STAND League, published an exposé on Alex Barnes-Ross’ harassment campaign against a female member of the Church’s staff—a woman he stated he had “very, very, very, extremely strong feelings for” that he could not control.
“Alex continued to engage in behaviour that made me extremely uncomfortable,” the woman explained, “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.… I felt like a sitting duck and like I couldn’t escape him.”
The page now yields an error: “Something has gone wrong.” And, in fact, something has gone wrong.
Barnes-Ross knew the woman had rejected his advances and admitted as much but refused to cease his stalking. “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.”
Alex Barnes-Ross and his mother share not only a familial bond but professional ties as well. Both are listed by Gov.UK at the same London address, an address shared by the nonprofit Women in Jazz Media, founded by Fiona Ross. Ms. Ross also lists Alex Barnes-Ross as a “collaborator” on her professional site.
On January 27, Freedom sent an email to Women in Jazz Media, cc’ing Ms. Ross, enquiring about her son’s history of stalking a young woman.
While neither Women in Jazz Media nor Fiona Ross responded directly to Freedom’s enquiry, they do appear to have acted on it.
For one: Ms. Ross took swift and radical measures on her website, where an entire page had previously been devoted to “Alexander Barnes-Ross.” (Ms. Ross previously credited Barnes-Ross with video production work on the following tracks: “Busy, Always Busy”; “The Live Sessions: Don’t Say”; “The Live Sessions: I Followed My Heart”; and “You Are Like Poison.”)
But the page now yields an error: “Something has gone wrong.”
And, in fact, something has gone wrong. Another “thing.”
Disturbingly, just 12 hours after Freedom sent an email to Ms. Ross and Women in Jazz Media enquiring about Barnes-Ross’ stalking of women, Barnes-Ross stalked another woman—seeking out a female Church staff member at a public meeting, violating her personal space, taking a picture next to her and posting it to social media with a heart around the two of them. Barnes-Ross then publicly characterised harassing the woman as the “highlight of my evening, highlight of my year” and stated he “loved” her, captioning the image “XOXO.”
As Barnes-Ross himself admitted to his first victim, he has “very, very, very, extremely strong feelings” over which he has “literally no” control.
Two days after Barnes-Ross’ further—and blatant—stalking, Freedom tweeted to Women in Jazz Media to ensure they had the opportunity to respond to our enquiry before publication.
Women in Jazz Media then immediately deleted their entire X (Twitter) account.
One can only speculate whether Ms. Ross is embarrassed by her son’s behaviour or wishes to maintain a distance from it—or both.
But one thing seems fairly certain: It must bring Alex Barnes-Ross tremendous shame that his misconduct is not only ruining his own life, but dragging the name of his mum and her nonprofit down with him.
