Jail For Internet Harassment Boyfriend

Jail For Internet Harassment Boyfriend


Shane Webber posted sexual images of his girlfriend to her family and friends

1:54pm UK, Monday October 31, 2011

A man who used social netwokring sites to mount a year-long harassment campaign against his girlfriend has been sentenced to four months in jail.
Shane Webber, 23, from Nottingham, posted sexually explicit images of his then girlfriend Ruth Jeffery, 22, to her family and friends.

District Judge Anthony Callaway said the offence was a "gross violation of Miss Jeffery's privacy".

Outside Southampton Magistrates' Court Miss Jeffery said the sentence "will never make up for the hurt he has put me through".

Webber tried to implicate one of his friends, Lee Evans, by putting the posts in an email address bearing Mr Evans's name, leading to his arrest.

He was only found out when Miss Jeffery's family made their own inquiries and the emails were traced back to him.

Miss Jeffery added: "I am extremely pleased with the outcome.

"The maximum sentence in a magistrates' court will never make up for the hurt he had put me through but I am pleased I can now put it behind me.

"I was absolutely devastated when I found out it was him. I could not believe it was Shane. I did not want to believe it."

Webber admitted one count of harassment at an earlier hearing.

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