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A jealous woman basically hijacked her ex-boyfriend’s Alexa device, which was about 160 kilometres away, to scare his new girlfriend out of his house.

It is reported via The Telegraph that Philipa Copleston-Warren used the smart voice-controlled device to terrify the new girlfriend by flashing the lights on and off in her ex’s house.

Copleston-Warren also allegedly spoke through the Alexa device to tell the new lover to leave and to take her stuff, which culminated in her becoming so distressed that she left the Lincolnshire house in tears.

Copleston-Warren, a former project manager at BP, was also able to spy on the couple and their activities from the CCTV cameras inside the house.

She might have got away with this behaviour if she didn’t then go and post a naked picture of her former lover on Facebook, which led to her being charged with a revenge porn offence.

After posting the incriminating image with a nasty caption (“Do I look fat??? My daily question”), she also let her ex know that he might want to remove his naked picture from social media.

On top of that, per The Daily Mail, she said that her ex-boyfriend had fathered two children out of wedlock on his Facebook account. Whether that is true or not has not been disclosed.

But Copleston-Warren had essentially locked him out of his account by changing the password and refusing to remove the image herself.

The image was only removed by Facebook after it was reported as being inappropriate.

Guilty as charged:

Copleston-Warren, who lives in a million-pound apartment in Chelsea, west London, initially denied the offence. On Tuesday, when she appeared before Isleworth Crown Court, she changed her plea and admitted a single count of disclosing private sexual photographs with intent to cause distress.

…Copleston-Warren will be sentenced in October and could face a maximum of two years in prison after sentences for revenge porn offences were increased.

Misba Majid, prosecuting, said that:

“…those nude photos went viral as far as Pakistan and impacted on his [Copleston-Warren’s ex-lover] work and business, given the number of people who had seen them.

“He felt completely violated and had ripped his world apart.”

Most of what Jacob Bindman, defending, had to say was that there was no “hacking” involved:

“She [Copleston-Warren] had joint access to those accounts, had the passwords and login details, so it is absolutely incorrect to state there was any hacking,” he said.

Christian Meikle, from the Crown Prosecution Service, hopes that anybody else affected by this type of conduct will be more open to coming forward, knowing now that they will be treated with respect, and that their reports will be taken seriously.

Posting naked images online in an act of revenge is illegal after all, and as has been seen, offenders will be brought to justice.

[source:telegraph]