WOMAN SENT THREATENING FACEBOOK MESSAGE TO EX-FRIEND WHILE DRUNK
A woman sent her former friend a Facebook message threatening “Your kid is f****g dead mate.” Jessica Martin set up a fake profile with the social networking site in order to communicate with Naomi Paterson.The message was sent under the alias of Chloe Simmonds and said: “Your kid is f*****g dead mate.
Hammer and lot!!!!!” Magistrates were told that there was some bad blood between Martin, of Charles Street in Brighouse, and the victim.
Miss Paterson was seeing Martin’s ex-boyfriend at the time and was drunk and upset.
She pleaded guilty to sending an electronic communication conveying a threat for the purpose of causing distress or anxiety to the recipient.
Prosecutor Alex Bozman told Kirklees magistrates that Miss Paterson received the “aggressive and abusive” Facebook message between 5am and 7am on June 23.
She had been given a restraining order for two years banning her from contacting Miss Paterson.
Magistrates fined Martin £120 and ordered her to pay £85 prosecution costs plus £30 victim surcharge.
She also acknowledged that she was drunk and upset at the time and that she fully appreciates she went too far and shouldn’t have sent the message.
