In a courtroom listening to on Wednesday, it was revealed {that a} social media influencer relentlessly bombarded Premier League star Mason Mount with messages throughout a four-month stalking marketing campaign following the tip of their relationship.
Orla Melissa Sloan, 21, pleaded responsible to stalking the Chelsea midfielder and his former teammate Billy Gilmour in addition to harassing fellow Blues star Ben Chilwell at a London magistrates’ courtroom.
Orla Melissa Sloan (L) at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom, in London, the place she pleaded responsible to stalking Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount and his former teammate Billy Gilmour in addition to harassing fellow Blues star Ben Chilwell, London, U.Okay., Might 24, 2023. (Getty Photographs Photograph)
The courtroom heard she slept with Mount after they met at a celebration at his England teammate Chilwell’s house in November 2020.
Prosecutor Jason Seetal mentioned they stayed involved for round six months earlier than Mount “determined that the connection was not going to progress.”
“Upon informing Miss Sloan of this he has been subjected to a bombardment of messages,” he mentioned. “He started asking her to cease messaging him earlier than blocking the quantity.
“He then started to obtain messages from new numbers and every time he would block these numbers there can be messages from a distinct quantity.”
Seetal mentioned a complete of 21 completely different numbers had been used to contact Mount.
The courtroom heard that in a single message from an Instagram account utilizing the title “Satan Child,” she mentioned: “I can morph at any time so let me apologize and set issues proper.”
She additionally mentioned: “I am not shopping for meals anymore so I can get extra numbers. I will likely be quicker than you.”
Seetal mentioned Chelsea midfielder Mount, 24, was “involved she had an obsession or fixation with him and he did not know what she was able to.”
In a press release, Mount mentioned: “Miss Sloane is aware of roughly the place I stay and the place I practice. I am apprehensive as if she is unable to contact me she may flip up at my coaching heart.”
The courtroom heard different messages had been aimed toward skilled footballers, family and friends members, together with left-back Chilwell.
The courtroom heard that Scotland midfielder Gilmour, who joined Brighton from Chelsea in September, had initially exchanged messages with Sloan earlier than telling her he didn’t need their contact to proceed and didn’t have a relationship together with her.
However she claimed to have develop into pregnant in allegations described in courtroom as “fully fictitious.”
Sloan pleaded responsible to inflicting “critical alarm or misery” by stalking Gilmour and admitted stalking Mount in addition to inflicting harassment to Chilwell.
District Choose Neeta Minhas adjourned sentencing to June 20 for stories to be ready, saying Sloan might face a jail time period.
She was granted unconditional bail.