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Rosa Golijan

Man jailed for creating 35 websites to insult ex

When most people end a relationship, they don't start creating websites to insult, embarrass and terrorize their exes. Unfortunately, that's exactly what one British man did — and now he's been jailed for it.

The Telegraph reports that 36-year-old Rebecca Pattinson ended her relationship with 38-year-old Stephen Andreassen when the man asked her to look at apartments together after four weeks of dating. At that point, Andreassen began bombarding her "with calls, emails, texts and messages over Facebook begging to be taken back."

The woman reacted by threatening to call the police, locking down her social networking profiles, removing all her contact details from her online profiles and deactivating her Facebook account.

That's when Andreassen became relentless. He began to "set up a series of blogs posting messages about her 'warning all men' and listing links to his other websites giving his account of their affair."

At that point — which was sometime last year — he was served with a lifetime restraining order and banned from mentioning Pattinson on any website.

But that wasn't the end of things:

Two months later, he was arrested again after he posted another entry on his blog detailing the court case and called the woman involved a “liar’’ and “a sociopath."

He was spared jail again but he set up a new obsessive website with various pages, including sections labelled The Relationship, My Story and Court Appearance. He then booked into a hotel in Scotland where he took 200 sleeping tablets in a failed suicide attempt.

Andreassen has finally been jailed for 18 weeks after admitting that he violated the restraining order.

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Rosa Golijan writes about tech here and there. She's a bit obsessed with Twitter and loves to be liked on Facebook.