Dude Buys 15 Websites To Live Blog A Woman's Life Who Dumped Him After 4 Dates 13 Years Ago
THIS MORNING – Lindsey Goldrick Dean was harassed for 13 years by a man she met through an online dating website.
After ending their relationship four dates in, Paul Curran became fixated on her and went on to harass her online, in the longest-running case of internet trolling in Britain.
When the police failed to intervene, Lindsey took her case to the High Court and now, following an unprecedented legal case, in which Paul admitted harassment, Lindsey is here to share her experience to help others.
NY POST – Lindsey Goldrick Dean went on just four dates with a man she met online. But that was all it took to prompt the 13-year harassment campaign that followed.
Talking to This Morning, Dean revealed how after a brief courtship the rejected suitor then began rifling through her bins for strands of her hair and lipstick blottings.
He then bought several website domains in her name, even after she got married and had a child, where he would post musings about her life and his creepy infatuation.
When his advances went unrequited, he also turned abusive, with threatening emails and phone calls to her friends and family.
“He bought at least 15 websites in my name, it squashed my ambition. He was constantly watching me, tweaking the sites.”
Gotta wonder what the big turning point here was that finally got Lindsey her court injunction and protection order against this guy? The first website he made about her didn’t do it. The second and third and fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh and eighth and ninth and tenth and eleventh and twelfth and thirteenth and fourteenth blog featuring pictures of her personal trash and lipstick blottings didn’t do it. Was it the 15th site where he live blogged about her life and her husband and her kids that finally moved the needle? I just feel like having to go into bankruptcy for your court fees to try and say a guy stalking your every move and broadcasting it publicly is not how it should work.
I mean I do believe in love at first sight. Sometimes when you know, you know. First date goes so well that you get not just a second date, but 2 more after that – great sign that you’re on to something special. Unfortunately when the girl doesn’t reciprocate anymore and decides she doesn’t want to be with you, you’re heartbroken, and disappointed, and maybe send her some texts and a couple voicemails pleading with her to give you another chance, maybe send some flowers to her office, stand outside with a boombox over your head. If it doesn’t convince her to come back, unfortunately it’s time to move on. I know it sucks. But what you really can’t do is purchase the entire internet from Al Gore and set up a constant live blog of her life for the next decade plus.
Big fan of law enforcement and the legal system but this seemed like a bit of a swing and a miss.