Alex Barnes-Ross
Alex Barnes-Ross is a serial harasser who said his participation in the Church of Scientology meant “everything to me” until he was kicked out after stalking a young woman. Since then, he has devoted all of his energy to seeking revenge—making online hate and real-world harassment his “full-time job” and primary source of income.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
- Alex Barnes-Ross was an avid and active Scientologist until he was kicked out of the religion for cause more than a decade ago. Since then, Barnes-Ross has pursued a course of revenge and retribution to facilitate his rage at being removed from the Church.
- Barnes-Ross stalked and harassed a young female Scientologist relentlessly, refusing to leave her alone despite her pleas. When exposed, he doubled down, stalking and harassing another female Scientologist at public meetings.
- Alex Barnes-Ross’ anti-Scientology hate campaign isn’t based on principle but rather on profit. He promotes his own emotional instability, rendering him unemployable, which drives his desperation for both cash and revenge.
- Alex Barnes-Ross is so toxic that police intervened and removed him from an event where he represented a threat to the public. Far from demonstrating remorse, he not only boasted about the incident, he brags about his close affiliations with criminals.
- Alex Barnes-Ross has stated publicly and repeatedly that his goal is to suspend the free practice of religion and convince people—by any means necessary—to demand the suppression of religious freedom.
THE FULL STORY:
1. Alex Barnes-Ross was an avid and active Scientologist until he was kicked out of the religion for cause more than a decade ago. Since then, Barnes-Ross has pursued a course of revenge and retribution to facilitate his rage at being removed from the Church.
“I got kicked out,” Barnes-Ross said of his expulsion from Scientology. “This was the most heartbreaking, earth-shattering thing to have ever happened to me.”
“If I hadn’t been kicked out, I fully believe I would have very much still been in today,” he says.
But Barnes-Ross’ previous passionate praise of the Church has mutated into naked fearmongering and harassment of members of his former religion.
“I’m on war footing and I’m not f—king about,” Barnes-Ross wrote, captioning a menacing image of himself en route to the home of thousands of Scientologists and the Church’s U.K. headquarters—the same facility his anti-Scientology partner urges “should burn down” in one of Barnes-Ross’ videos.
Referring to himself as a “slayer” of Scientology, Barnes-Ross has gone so far as to post videos promoting the cyberterrorist hate collective Anonymous and putting Scientologists on notice that they have been “warned” of the harm Barnes-Ross hopes will come to them.
“I’m making their life difficult now, and I got more enjoyment from that than I expected,” he said. “It’s definitely become a full-time job.”
2. Barnes-Ross stalked and harassed a young female Scientologist relentlessly, refusing to leave her alone despite her pleas. When exposed, he doubled down, stalking and harassing another female Scientologist at public meetings.
In 2011, Alex pleaded to become a staff member at the London Church of Scientology. There, he developed what he described as “very, very, very, extremely strong feelings” for a female colleague who called his conduct what it was: stalking.
Barnes-Ross “ignored my requests to stop his disturbing and harassing behaviour,” the young woman said, explaining how he routinely invaded her personal space—making her feel trapped and helpless—and “always trying to get physically closer,” despite her pleas.
“I felt like a sitting duck and like I couldn’t escape him,” she said.
After stalking the woman ceaselessly, Barnes-Ross texted a disturbing admission: “The whole time I’ve known you don’t like me, but… I have literally no [control over] my feelings.”
“I just don’t know what to do or how to carry on,” he added. “It’s something that’s really ruining my life right now.”
Barnes-Ross was dismissed from the Church soon after.
Yet even after he was publicly condemned for his stalking, Barnes-Ross doubled down by stalking another female Scientologist—this time brazenly, out in the open at a public meeting. There, he invaded the woman’s personal space, snapped a photo of himself closing in on her without her consent and published the disturbing images with a hand-scrawled heart around the two of them. Barnes-Ross captioned the image “xoxo,” and described how harassing the woman was the “highlight of my evening, highlight of my year.”
“I consider it truly an honour to have had the chance to sit next to you for a whole hour,” he chillingly wrote.
YouTube immediately took down Barnes-Ross’ video recounting the incident for violating the privacy of the woman he had just stalked.
In fact, YouTube has taken down no less than 17 of Barnes-Ross’ videos because they depicted stalking, harassment and egregious invasions of the privacy of Scientologists.
Virtually everyone in Barnes-Ross’ life has distanced themselves from him because of his deviant conduct—even his own mother, who stripped any mention of her son from her website after his history of serial stalking came to light.
3. Alex Barnes-Ross’ anti-Scientology hate campaign isn’t based on principle but rather on profit. He promotes his own emotional instability, rendering him unemployable, which drives his desperation for both cash and revenge.
Alex Barnes-Ross’ CV is a catalogue of failures, including his multiple abortive business ventures—each launched and promptly shut down from his mother’s flat—leaving him chronically broke.
Barnes-Ross freely admits that he is incapable of supporting himself or paying his rent, prompting him to parlay his revenge campaign into an ongoing fundraiser, and attempting to make a living off his bigotry.
After a suicide attempt in 2022, Barnes-Ross abandoned all pretence of a normal career, rebranding himself from a failed entrepreneur to “Apostate Alex.” The calculated alter ego, born from the wreckage of his personal collapse, coerced others into buying the fiction that he had suddenly “discovered” his hatred of the religion he loved—the religion that expelled him for his own misconduct.
By May 2023, Barnes-Ross was attacking his former Church full time in pursuit of retribution and income.
Barnes-Ross makes no secret of the fact that his anti-Scientology activities are motivated by profit. “Any donations would be greatly appreciated,” he says, before imploring his fellow bigots to “help me out of a cash flow struggle.”
Barnes-Ross’ trips to the Church’s U.K. headquarters and efforts to harass local officials there are, accordingly, stunts staged for the benefit of receiving “financing” from his tiny following of anti-Scientology bigots.
Even the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office concluded Barnes-Ross’ anti-Scientology conduct in East Grinstead “appears to have been calculated to harass and offend.”
4. Alex Barnes-Ross is so toxic that police intervened and removed him from an event where he represented a threat to the public. Far from demonstrating remorse, he not only boasted about the incident, he brags about his close affiliations with criminals.
Barnes-Ross’ misconduct has escalated from stalking and harassing women to being handcuffed in broad daylight and bundled away by law enforcement.
In May 2025, Metropolitan Police detained and searched Barnes-Ross after he live streamed his own intent to make trouble on the streets of London. “Let’s see how long it takes security to come down on us,” he taunted.
Police told media: “Officers searched a man at the scene following concerns around conspiracy to commit criminal damage.”
Far from showing remorse, Barnes-Ross gloated: “Any news coverage is good,” adding, “I think it’s fantastic that it has made headlines.”
Barnes-Ross’ descent has led him into the orbit of predators, perverts, extremists and felons as deviant as himself—individuals who are now his closest associates—including: sex trafficking and Backpage.com paid defender Tony Ortega; sex tourist Mark Fisher; convicted felon and extortionist Nathanial Plotner; serial harasser and racist Jon Breen; and convicted hate speech offender John McGhee, under permanent injunction for violently assaulting a Scientologist.
5. Alex Barnes-Ross has stated publicly and repeatedly that his goal is to suspend the free practice of religion and convince people—by any means necessary—to demand the suppression of religious freedom.
Shortly after announcing his quest to seek out jurisdictions where harassment laws are weaker because “there are things you … can’t get away with in the U.K.,” Barnes-Ross accidentally confessed the true intent of his anti-religious harassment campaign.
“Government agencies and politicians aren’t going to step in and start meddling with religious freedom and beliefs,” he said, “unless there’s a clear demand among the electorate.”
His motives to push officials into “meddling with religious freedom and beliefs” was exposed in an April 2025 interview on TalkTV, where a host shamed Barnes-Ross for trying to violate the human rights of people of faith.
Upon hearing Barnes-Ross demand the free practice of religion be suspended, he said, “I’ve got to be honest with you, Alex, you and I have departed.”
“Those people who wish to practise their religious beliefs … have a right to practise their religion in a free country.”
CONCLUSION:
Alexander Barnes-Ross is an extremist bigot and stalker who conducts a hate campaign for profit—seeking revenge against the Church that expelled him for his malevolent conduct. Barnes-Ross seeks to attack all Scientologists on the basis of their religion.
Even the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office concluded Barnes-Ross’ anti-Scientology conduct “appears to have been calculated to harass and offend.”
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