Alex Barnes-Ross Confirms Commitment to Stalking and Harassment, Looks for Weaker Laws to Exploit
Alex Barnes-Ross, a notorious anti-Scientology stalker, recently announced on YouTube his intention to seek out weaker laws that he could exploit to harass his targets.
“The harassment laws are different over in the U.K. to the U.S.,” Barnes-Ross said on July 22, “so there are things you can get away with that you can’t get away with in the U.K.” He then expressed his wish to remain in the US, presumably as it presents greater opportunities for stalking his targets, including all members of the Scientology religion and the vulnerable young woman he notoriously and incessantly harassed.
Virtually everyone in Barnes-Ross’ life besides his circle of criminal associates have distanced themselves from him as a result of his deviant conduct.
Barnes-Ross—who has spent more than a decade building his life around harassment, forging alliances with criminals and obsessively pursuing his victims—had his most recent run-in with law enforcement on May 15, when he was detained and handcuffed by Metropolitan Police for conspiracy to commit criminal damage.
A documented pattern of predation
Barnes-Ross’ career of harassment began in 2013, when he relentlessly pursued a young female colleague at the Church of Scientology who rejected his advances. She described feeling like “a sitting duck” who “couldn’t escape him” as he routinely invaded her personal space, cornered her and ignored her repeated pleas to stop. His own text message to her admitted he had “literally no [control over] my feelings.”
After being expelled from the Church for his misconduct—a loss he describes to this day as “earth-shattering” and “heartbreaking”—Barnes-Ross expanded on his obsession, shifting from harassing a single victim to targeting an entire religious community. Over the years, his stalking escalated into what he now openly calls “a full-time job.” In his own words: “I’m making their life difficult now, and I got more enjoyment from that than I expected.”
Barnes-Ross’ victims have included multiple women. In January 2025, he approached a female Scientologist at a public meeting, sat “too close for comfort,” snapped a selfie with her, drew a heart around it and posted it online boasting it was the “highlight of my evening, highlight of my year.” YouTube swiftly removed the video for violating its privacy policies.
The company Barnes-Ross keeps
Barnes-Ross’ circle is a rogues’ gallery of like-minded stalkers, predators, perverts, extremists and felons:
Tony Ortega—Former paid defender of Backpage.com, the world’s largest online marketplace for child sex trafficking before its 2018 FBI shutdown. Ortega dismissed the trafficking of underaged girls as “a small problem” and targeted those exposing it.
Mark Fisher—Sex tourist who boasts about exploiting underaged trafficking victims in Thailand. Barnes-Ross calls him “the esteemed Mark Fisher.”
Nathanial Plotner—A felon convicted for terrorist threats, stalking and attempted extortion. Barnes-Ross praises him as an “OG” and collaborator whose “style” he loves.
Jon Breen—Serial harasser and subject, allegedly, of nine criminal cases, whose rap sheet includes racist hate speech and threats to burn down religious property—endorsed publicly by Barnes-Ross.
John McGhee—Convicted of public order offences related to hate speech and violent assault; has called for the assassination of a religious leader.
Marc Headley—Self-admitted violent abuser and embezzler; boasts of drunkenness and assaulting women.
Brad Delaine—Online harasser of women using sexually degrading messages, applauded by Barnes-Ross for his stalking and “persistence.”’
Ashley Richards—Anti-Scientologist who moonlights as an online OnlyFans sex worker, selling her body and exposing herself for $12.50 per month.
Virtually everyone in Barnes-Ross’ life besides his circle of criminal associates have distanced themselves from him as a result of his deviant conduct, including his own mother. Barnes-Ross even appears to have disqualified himself from his seasonal work as a ticket taker due to his notoriety as a stalker.
Yet he remains unrelenting—so consumed by his psychotic obsession he is willing to destroy everything else in his life to continue his harassment campaign.
Barnes-Ross’ July 22 admission lays bare the horrifying truth: He seeks to exploit every available legal loophole to stalk his vulnerable targets with impunity, to the point of looking for jurisdictions with weaker anti-harassment laws.
This is a man who has made predation his full-time mission—and there is no sign he plans to stop.
