The Real Story—A Life of Stalking, Hate and Harassment

During the summer of 2011, Alex Barnes-Ross was a volunteer staff member at the Church of Scientology in London.

It wasn’t long before he spotted the Church receptionist, for whom, as he later put it, he had “very, very, very, extremely strong feelings” he said he could not control.

Despite her emphatic refusals of his advances, Barnes-Ross would not take no for an answer and his persistent presence soon devolved into a nightmare for the young woman.

“Even after telling him that I wasn’t interested,” she later wrote in a statement, “Alex continued to engage in behavior that made me extremely uncomfortable.” He was “always trying to get physically closer.”

In fact, Barnes-Ross took every opportunity to ratchet up the pressure. He would comment on her appearance, clothes or hairstyle and violate her personal space by leaning in close to look at her computer screen, coming around to her desk and sitting uncomfortably near. “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.”

When Barnes-Ross was dismissed in September 2011, she hoped she was finally free of him. But his obsession with her continued. Indeed, she appears to be why he tried so hard to rejoin staff, which he eventually achieved in July 2013. Her nightmare started all over again, and the sexually motivated harassment intensified.

Finally, in a desperate attempt to get Barnes-Ross to leave her alone, she set a photo of herself with a male friend as her phone background to give the impression she had a boyfriend.

Barnes-Ross was infuriated but 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,” he wrote. “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.”

Barnes-Ross took the harassment a step further, stalking her brother 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. Her brother became so uncomfortable that he changed carriages, but the man “pursued him and sat down again in the new carriage, still staring and smiling. My brother told me that he felt like he was being stalked.”

His sister then showed him a photograph of Barnes-Ross. “He confirmed it was definitely Alex in the train.”

The young woman’s nightmare finally ended when Barnes-Ross was again dismissed from Church of Scientology staff in December 2013. She was so traumatized by him that only after he left was she willing to disclose the full details of how his sexually aggressive behavior and texts had made her life miserable.

In January 2025, Barnes-Ross stalked and harassed yet another female Scientologist and perversely posted it online

With Alex Barnes-Ross, his targets as a stalker remain the same—they are members of the Scientology religion or people he considers are friendly towards the Church.

Some one in three stalkers are repeat offenders. And so it is with Barnes-Ross. Just as his earlier offenses were gaining broad exposure, he responded by stalking another female Scientologist.

At a public meeting in January 2025, he moved in on his new victim, sitting “too close for comfort.” He snapped a selfie with her, drew a heart around the picture and then posted it on social media, boasting how stalking her was the “highlight of my evening, highlight of my year.”

In a transparent effort to harass the woman, he declared his “love” for her. “I consider it truly an honor to have had the chance to sit next to you for a whole hour.” (The video was taken down a short time later as a privacy violation.)

But Barnes-Ross’ harassment is not just limited to female Scientologists. One national nonprofit describes how “stalkers are often obsessive in multiple areas of their life.”

His harassment now embraces every member of the Scientology religion. In one YouTube video, he described being surprised at “how much joy I got” out of “annoying certain people in the Church” through his harassment actions.

“I’m making their life difficult now and I got more enjoyment from it than I expected. It’s definitely become a full-time job.”

Fiona Ross scrubbed her nonprofit’s website of any mention of Alex Barnes-Ross—and she’s his mother

Alex Barnes-Ross’ malignant conduct toward women and others has been so extreme, his own mother deleted him from her professional website. By the time the January 2025 YouTube video of Barnes-Ross harassing another female stalking victim was removed because it violated the subject’s privacy, Barnes-Ross’ mother had already responded in kind by removing him from her website.

Fiona Ross had previously devoted a full page to her son as a “collaborator.” But with another of her son’s stalking incidents gaining attention online, all references to Alex Barnes-Ross were quietly erased from her site.

Ms. Ross is the head of a female-centered nonprofit called Women in Jazz Media. In distancing herself from her son, the serial stalker, she made a prudent professional move.

Barnes-Ross, on the other hand, threw a public tantrum on YouTube, complaining about how conditional love from a parent was “horrible” for a child. “Love should be unconditional,” he whined. “You love your kids no matter what.”

The message was not lost on those familiar with recent events in Barnes-Ross’ life.

But it was a typical Barnes-Ross reaction to rejection. Instead, he should be mortified that he is not only ruining his own life but dragging down the name of his mother and her nonprofit with him.

Alex Barnes-Ross turned his stalking obsession into a bigotry-driven hate and harassment campaign to attack the Church that rejected him

Barnes-Ross has repeatedly described how much he hated being kicked out by the Church that he said was “everything” to him. “I just kind of get on with my life and try not to think about it too much,” he said. “I’m horrifically depressed and think there’s no point in doing anything.”

But he did not “get on with his life.” Quite the opposite. In fact, from that point forward, Alex Barnes-Ross’ behavior can best be summarized by the Cambridge University Press book Stalkers and Their Victims and its chapter “The rejected stalker and the resentful stalker”: “[The stalker’s] rage at rejection is often augmented by distress at the perceived unfairness or humiliating nature of the rejection. The sense of loss may be heightened by the stalker’s awareness that for them the lost relationship may be irreplaceable.”

The Church is irreplaceable to Barnes-Ross. He says as much repeatedly, more than a decade after he was expelled from the religion.

In any case, the rage he evidently felt over being rejected soon fueled his relentless stalking of the Church—its staff and parishioners, male and female—and spawned a bigotry-for-profit scheme that he now refers to as his “full-time job.”

Launching a hate channel on YouTube in early 2023, Barnes-Ross rebranded himself as an anti-Scientology “apostate”—one who renounces a former group—despite frequent assertions of his love for the group, and has since posted a steady stream of hate videos about Scientology.

Barnes-Ross’ hate campaign is so virulent it has drawn criticism from many quarters. As he described it: “I had hundreds of comments and messages—people attacking me, questioning my, you know, what my intentions are, why I’m doing it, and, you know, seeming suspect and all of this.”

Barnes-Ross has scrounged up a support team of criminal degenerates to harass Church staff and parishioners

Haters and bigots invariably attract more of the same ilk. That is certainly true of Barnes-Ross’ anti-Scientology cohorts. His speed dial reaches a rogues’ gallery of disreputables—all manner of criminals, deviants and troublemakers who have collaborated with Barnes-Ross in active harassment against the Church:

• John McGhee was convicted in June 2024 on three public order offenses stemming from criminal harassment against an LGBTQ Pride march. Earlier McGhee joined the cyberterrorist group Anonymous in hate marches and so-called “flash raids” against Scientology Churches in England and Ireland. An Irish Court subsequently found him liable for the assault and harassment of two Scientologists on the streets of Dublin, granting a permanent injunction and damages against him. In 2014, in concert with others, McGhee stormed a Church in the UK with the intention of defacing the property.







• Jon Breen is reportedly under investigation by multiple UK police forces for racism, harassment and hate speech, with nine open criminal cases pending against him. In 2021, Breen was found guilty of harassment and arrested multiple times for stalking his former girlfriend and her family.

• Nathanial Plotner, otherwise known as “Nasty Nathanial,” was convicted on multiple felony counts including making terrorist threats, stalking and attempted extortion. He was sentenced to four years in prison after threatening to murder a law enforcement officer unless the police paid him $1 million. That’s blackmail and extortion. The police called it terrorism.



• Pete Griffiths is a staunch supporter of the cyberterrorist group Anonymous, at one point posting a naked picture of himself on the internet, with only a Anonymous mask covering his genitals. In 2014, while John McGhee harassed and assaulted two Scientologists passing out drug education booklets in Dublin, Griffiths followed, egging McGhee on while videoing the whole incident. As a result, the Court also ordered him to pay restitution to their victims.

• Mathew Pritchard, a member of the cyberterrorist group Anonymous, who goes by the handle “@AnonLethal,” has posted Facebook photos of rifles and handguns, describing them as “glorious” and “so sexy,” which has drawn the attention of the police.

• William Drummond has a criminal record that includes drug dealing, shoplifting, and driving drunk without a license. He has harassed staff at several UK Churches—in Plymouth, he stood outside and harangued the staff with abusive language. McGhee and Drummond also picketed a school attended by children of Scientologists.

McGhee, Griffiths, Plotner, Breen, Pritchard and Drummond have all attended anti-Scientology gatherings organized by Barnes-Ross.

Barnes-Ross has additionally partnered with Marc and Claire Headley from the U.S. in his campaign of hate. The Headleys left the Church in 2005 after Marc was caught embezzling $15,000 in Church funds. In August 2010, a Federal U.S. District Court dismissed frivolous lawsuits the couple had filed against the Church, stating their claims “lack merit and do not create genuine issues of fact” and that “they enjoyed their time in the Church.” The Court subsequently ordered the Headleys to pay the Church $42,000 in costs.

Another Barnes-Ross confederate is the violent hatemonger Aaron Smith-Levin, a self-admitted adulterer who, according to another Barnes-Ross collaborator, boasted of “cocaine-fueled sex” trips to Colombia and consorting with prostitutes. Smith-Levin has also been involved in serial extramarital affairs and is notoriously violent with women. After a disagreement with one female he was seeing, Smith-Levin slammed her into a stone wall, leaving her bloody and crumpled while he stalked off, all documented by a nearby security camera.

Barnes-Ross collaborates with Anonymous, the masked collective of cyberterrorists

The roster of those Alex Barnes-Ross has gathered to support his anti-Scientology hate campaign includes members of Anonymous, the masked hate collective that is notorious with authorities for cyberterrorist attacks, real-life terrorist attacks and anti-Semitism—and its internet assaults on governments, government institutions and corporations.

In 2008, Anonymous targeted the Church of Scientology with cyberattacks, persistent prank calls, bomb threats and physical damage to Church properties around the world.

These criminal acts resulted in seven Anonymous members prosecuted, convicted or jailed for their crimes against the Church. Federal law enforcement agencies took action, prosecuting two Anonymous members with prison sentences and stiff fines. Another received multiple convictions and a restraining order, and yet another was convicted of the misdemeanor of malicious mischief. A court put one man under a restraining order for stalking, and another pled guilty to willfully disturbing religious services and a stay-away order was issued on him. One Anonymous criminal was arrested for a murder threat, his residence raided and assault weapons seized.

Years later, in October 2023, Barnes-Ross posted a remake of an Anonymous video, creating an ominous, threatening message aimed at Scientologists coming from around the world to attend a yearly religious convocation at Church headquarters in East Grinstead.

Barnes-Ross then promoted his video with the posting: “Scientology. You were warned.”

In the end, Barnes-Ross’ attempt to use this ad to resuscitate the terrorizing activity employed earlier by Anonymous against Scientology failed.

Barnes-Ross fraudulently represented himself as a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing to bolster his professional credibility

Alex Barnes-Ross has been guilty of unlawful behavior in an effort to bolster his business.

This malfeasance came to light: Barnes-Ross has been falsely representing himself as a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) to increase his credibility as a professional marketer—another example of his fraudulent and dishonest nature.

But it is also an example of criminal fraud.

The Chartered Institute of Marketing is a UK-based organization with more than 30,000 members ranging from affiliates who are studying with CIM to experienced professionals who are awarded advanced professional memberships. Members of the Institute are required to abide by a strict Professional Code of Conduct. This includes the requirement to: “Never knowingly or recklessly disseminate any false or misleading information, either on their own behalf or on behalf of anyone else.”

Barnes-Ross managed to secure a membership in the Institute in May of 2022. Ten months later, his membership ended. As it happens, this coincided with the start of Barnes-Ross’ new career: disseminating false and misleading information about Scientology.

But, since March 2023, Barnes-Ross continued to promote himself fraudulently with the post-nominal letters MCIM—Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. And he promoted it everywhere possible.

Under the Fraud Act 2006, it is an offense for an individual to make false representations to gain financial benefit, professional credibility or business opportunity.

On February 22, 2025, two weeks after the Institute was alerted to this fraud, the MCIM designation vanished from Barnes-Ross’ bio. Since then, rather than describing himself as a “marketing professional,” he represents his work as “telling meaningful stories.”

The only problem? The Barnes-Ross definition of “telling meaningful stories” is to spread bigoted disinformation in videos about Scientology.

Barnes-Ross is accurately pegged by online audiences as a grifter of the highest order, a liar, a fraud—and as a religious bigot

Working as a full-time hatemonger does not pay well, as Barnes-Ross has come to learn the hard way. He will beg for handouts, however.

“Some call it grifting. I call it giving extra perks to my supporters,” he explained.

“I hate to write this,” Barnes-Ross posted on one of his fundraisers, “but I’m struggling and I need your help... I’ve ended up in a tricky spot. I’m not going to make my rent this month… I’m struggling to make ends meet.”

So he divides his time spreading disinformation, harassing, stalking—and begging donations from his followers:

“Please consider buying me a coffee. There’s a link down below. There’s also PayPal, all that sort of stuff….”

For those unwilling to donate there is another option: “I’ve got ‘merch.’ This is one of the t-shirts.”

So it goes, because Barnes-Ross makes the same plaintive pitch for money at the end of literally every video he posts.

Barnes-Ross also acknowledges his antireligious, bigoted obsession has generated a backlash. By his own report: “I have people tweeting me daily about how I’m a butthurt, religious bigot, clout chaser, grifter, fraud, liar, all this sort of stuff.”

And there’s more: “So this is a sort of comment that I had this morning on my channel: ‘Fake victim.’ ‘Con man.’ ‘Bro, you’re a grifter of the highest order.’ And, ‘Clearly Alex is stirring the pot.’”

Even more to the point: “Alex, Dude, you’re coming off as a raving lunatic. Stop now….”

And these are only a sampling of the scorn and ridicule he admits to receiving. Barnes-Ross should heed his “friends” and move on.