A little over a year ago, a guy named Louis Jolly in England innocently went through the worst four months of his life.
At that time, he was scared to stop playing with his mobile phone, hid at home all day and did not dare to go out, and was arrested by the police for questioning at every turn, and even finally suffered from a series of psychological diseases!
And all of this stems from his ex-girlfriend's retaliation using social media...
It all started in 2017, when Louis Jolly, a 17-year-old boy from Cheshire, England, met Courtney Ireland-Ainsworth, a girl two years younger than himself, and the two fell in love.
Later, after two years of getting along, they found that they and each other were not very suitable, so they said to each other in October 2019 that they would break up peacefully, and there was no contradiction at that time.
Logically, in general, such a business difference should be quite harmonious, and it didn't take long for Courtney to find a new boyfriend, and it didn't look like he had been hit much.
However, less than a year after the two ended their relationship, on July 15, 2020, the police suddenly broke into Louis's home and took him away!
It wasn't until he was arrested and questioned at the police station that he finally learned the reason for his arrest, which turned out to be his ex-girlfriend Courtney who reported to the police that he had received a threatening message from his newly created Instagram account, and also provided screenshots of relevant private chats as evidence.
But now that he learned the "truth", Louis was completely confused, he had never done this file at all, how could he inexplicably rely on him?
And that's not all, in the next four months until December 12, 2020, Courtney intermittently reported the crime to the police for similar reasons 10 times!
The first were accusations that Louis had harassed her with a hidden phone number, stalked her and her new boyfriend, and even filmed her on the street and sent her threats.
Then he also claimed that the ex-boyfriend verbally and physically abused her, and also provided the police with a photo of her chest stabbed by a blade, smashing the stone into the window of her grandmother's room and destroying many items in the house!
After receiving the report, the police went to his residence to search the property, confiscated two mobile phones, and arrested him 6 times before and after, and the total detention time reached 81 hours!
No matter how much Louis explains it, as soon as Courtney calls the police, he will be arrested, and in order to avoid this, he will do everything he can to prove his innocence:
"I felt powerless about it, didn't know how to protect myself from these accusations, and was frustrated that I felt as if no one was listening to me."
Once I asked the police to install CCTV in my place of residence and to install a GPS tracker on me, and then when my second mobile phone was confiscated by the police, I decided not to use the phone anymore, and I would no longer access social media and the Internet!
Except for going to work and occasionally going fishing, I don't go out at any other time, and I almost always stay at home with my mother, so that I may be able to provide an alibi for any future accusations..."
However, even after this situation, Louis could not escape the "fate" of continuing to be arrested, and then Courtney and his mother called the police and sent him to the police station.
To this end, the police asked the relevant person in charge of Instagram to take the data of the account involved in the case on November 15, hoping to obtain more strong evidence, but this needs to be reviewed by privacy regulations, and can only wait for a period of time.
As a result, Courtney applied to the court for a temporary tracking protection order on December 4, and Louis was punished with a six-week curfew from 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. every night, and was also shackled electronically!
Suspected of "committing crimes on many occasions", he was even disqualified from bail on one occasion, and after spending a whole night in the police detention room, he was escorted directly to the court the next morning for trial...
Although Louis was eventually released due to insufficient evidence in each detention, such frequent arrests had a great impact on his life and physical and mental health:
"Between each arrest, I was in a state of anxiety and always felt that the police would rush into the house at any time to take me away!
The owner of the company was also frustrated by what happened to me, and I explained to him that the allegations were malicious, that I had done nothing wrong, and that at first he understood, but then I repeatedly missed my job because I had to attend court hearings, and he had no choice but to fire me.
Losing my job means that I have no income, but I still have to pay court fees and lawyers' fees, so my savings have been hollowed out, and when I am at the lowest point, I even feel that it is not worth living anymore, maybe it is better to die..."
The ordeal took a profound toll on Louis's mental health, and he was diagnosed with suicidal tendencies after seeing a doctor and taking a lot of antidepressants.
Every day, because there is no mobile phone to communicate, the relationship with friends is increasingly estranged, so he can only stay at home, and even the neighbors begin to look at him differently because the police come to arrest him from time to time...
Finally, on December 12, the responsible party of ins finally sent the relevant information of the account involved in the case and the IP address behind it, at which time a shocking truth was revealed.
It turned out that these nearly 30 fake accounts were actually created by Courtney, which was simply a play she directed and acted! The purpose is to frame and retaliate against the ex-boyfriend!
In the end, Courtney was arrested for perverting the judicial process, but was only recently sentenced to 10 months in prison because the lawyer representing her said she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder...
After this matter was reported, netizens expressed sympathy and indignation at the young man's encounter:
"This ex-girlfriend's behavior caused him to be seriously injured, causing him to lose his job, income and reputation!
I hope that everyone who knows him will do their best to help him rebuild his life, and I hope that the original employer can give him another chance to reinstate..."
"Such an ending will not give him a new lease of life, because he has lost too much and will never come back..."
"The police and the court went so far as to impose electronic shackles and curfews on the woman alone??? Hopefully, he'll get compensation after all this.
Obviously, she carefully planned all this, but the lawyer also said that it was because of childhood trauma that affected her decision-making, what an evil and psychologically twisted perverted woman! ”
Some people think that the ex-girlfriend's approach is too vicious, and the degree of punishment is too light for her:
"Criminal damage, harassment, false alarms, false statements, and waste of police time led to the boy being detained for more than eighty hours, under a curfew for weeks, losing his job, and damaging his reputation!"
As a result, she was only sentenced to 8 months in prison?! ”
"She definitely deserves a longer sentence!"
Others believe that the family members who helped her deceive the police are also inseparable and should also be punished by law:
"Affecting her decision-making because of PTSD?
So what influenced her mother's decision-making? Why hasn't this mom been charged in any way? ”
"Her mom and her new boyfriend should also be put in the dock and sentenced to prison together!"
All that they have done together against an innocent person is extremely despicable! ”
Some people even pointed out that the police also have a big problem, and even based on the remarks of the reporters alone, they have repeatedly mistakenly arrested innocent parties:
"The police should not unilaterally believe the woman's words from the beginning, but should investigate the facts!"
"Why didn't the police and the Prosecution Service investigate the truth before ruining his life?"
"Cheating the police for 5 months and causing the guy to lose his job, she was only sentenced to 10 months in prison, and the sentence of 10 years is not excessive!"
So why didn't the police use IP addresses to find out the source of those ins accounts before? ”
"Evidence should be more than what a person said before arrest, otherwise it could easily be abused!"