Orla Sloan: TikToker who stalked footballers Mason Mount and Billy Gilmour avoids jail
A TikToker has been given a 12-month jail sentence suspended for 18 months for stalking two Premier League footballers and harassing a 3rd.
Orla Sloan, 21, previously admitted stalking Chelsea and England star Mason Mount for greater than 4 months.
She additionally pleaded responsible to inflicting “serious alarm or distress” to Brighton and Scotland midfielder Billy Gilmour after stalking him for over a month.
And she admitted one other cost of harassing Chelsea and England left-back Ben Chilwell.
Sloan was additionally handed a 30-day rehabilitation order, 200 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay Mount and Chilwell £300 every whereas she was additionally ordered to pay Gilmour £500.
The court docket beforehand heard Sloan, from Exeter, subjected Mount to a “bombardment of messages” between 19 June and 28 October 2022.
Mason Mount was stalked by Sloan after sleeping together with her, the court docket heard
She had beforehand slept with Mount after they met at a celebration at his England teammate Chilwell’s home in November 2020, the court docket heard.
Though the pair saved in contact for round six months, Mount later ceased contact with Sloan however she continued to ship him messages.
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Prosecutor Jason Seetal advised an earlier listening to it was at that time he started to be focused by a “bombardment of messages”.
He stated: “He began asking her to stop messaging him before blocking the number.
“He then started to obtain messages from new numbers and every time he would block these numbers, there could be messages from a special quantity.”
A complete of 21 totally different numbers had been used to contact the Chelsea star. Some messages included collages of photographs of the participant with different ladies.
The earlier listening to was advised how in a single message from an Instagram account utilizing the Devil Baby title, she stated: “I can morph at any time so let me apologise and set things right.”
Another confirmed an Apple account shopping for a brand new quantity for £12.99 with the phrases: “I’m not buying food anymore so I can get more numbers.
“I will likely be sooner than you.”
Orla Sloan pleaded responsible in May
In a sufferer impression assertion, Mount added: “Miss Sloan knows roughly where I live and where I train.
“I’m nervous as if she is unable to contact me she would possibly flip up at my coaching centre.”
Sloan – who reportedly had tens of thousands of social media followers – stalked Gilmour between 10 September and 28 October 2022 and claimed to have fallen pregnant – allegations described in court as “fully fictitious”.
Gilmour said her messages had had a “enormous impression” on his life after he joined Brighton from Chelsea in September last year.
“I’ve not been in a position to sleep and have needed to take sleeping tablets,” he said. “It’s had a unfavourable impact on my efficiency {and professional} life.
“Being in a new town where I don’t have my friends or family, it’s really upsetting.”
Sloan, from Exeter, appeared to indicate little seen emotion as she sat within the dock with a black high over a white gown and heavy make up.
In mitigation her lawyer Michael Cogan stated she had been “naive” in not realising any relationship with Mr Mount was not going to progress, including that she is remorseful and has not contacted them since.
Sloan may even need to pay £85 prices and a £154 sufferer surcharge.