A HOMELESS Geordie left former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson in fear of her life, a US court has heard.

The actress has taken out a restraining order saying she feared for her safety after 29-year-old William Peter Stansfield followed her for a month.

A California judge granted the order after hearing that former public schoolboy Stansfield had been living in a tent near her home.

The judge said there was clear and convincing evidence to issue a three-year restraining order against the father-of-one, originally from Jesmond, Newcastle.

It is thought Stansfield moved to the US four years ago and has been living rough, camping in a tent in Malibu, California, not far from where Anderson lives with her sons Brandon, nine, and Dylan, seven.

On a US TV show, he denied stalking the star. But she claimed that he had followed her all over Malibu.

In court papers, Anderson also said Stansfield harassed her brother, her assistant and most recently showed up at her children's school, "harassing me, my sons and other family members for more than a month".

Stansfield, who went to Dame Allan's School, in Fenham, last lived in Wandsworth Road, Heaton, before going to the US. He has a young child with a former partner and they lived in the Felling area of Gateshead.