A prominent anti-TV Licensing campaigner has doorstepped its BBC boss.
Michael Shakespeare hand delivered a letter of complaint to the home of BBC's Head of Revenue Management, Pipa Doubtfire, last Wednesday afternoon.
Michael, you might recall, was wrongly convicted of TV licence evasion in the most sinister of circumstances. His conviction was quashed on appeal with the Judge commenting that no reasonable tribunal of fact could ever accept the prosecution case, which was so implausible that TV Licensing's own witnesses contradicted it.
Having publicly humiliated TV Licensing in court, you would think the BBC's revenue generation bullies would give Michael a wide berth nowadays. On the contrary, TV Licensing continues to spitefully target an innocent man.
We surmise that Doubtfire, who earns almost £160k, doesn't have much time for people like Michael. That being the case, she has failed to respond to his entirely justified complaints.
He has told TV Licensing not to visit his property, but it insists it has the right to do so. Using the same logic, Michael decided he had the right to visit Doubtfire's home to personally drop off a letter. He had been told by the BBC that she works at home, so he reasoned that she would happily accept business correspondence there. She didn't answer the door, so he handed it to the person who did. He then left the property immediately - no dialogue, no confrontation - in stark contrast to the menacing behaviour, threats and lies exhibited by many TV Licensing goons.
It would appear that Doubtfire didn't appreciate Michael's personal touch. Running to the police with the speed and agility of a teenager fleeing Jimmy Savile's BBC dressing room, she complained that she had been harassed in her own home. Oh the irony.
Harassment, by legal definition, involves a course of action - a first-time, one-off visit to someone's home doesn't quite cut it. We're amused that the woman responsible for TV Licensing's doorstep thugs feels so aggrieved at receiving a letter far more benign than the average TV Licensing threatogram.
The police tried to serve Michael with a Police Information Notice, but he refused to accept it.
We'll bring you any developments as they happen.
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Edit (17/5/18): We have corrected Pipa Doubtfire's salary details and tidied up the wording of this article.