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Man jailed for creating 35 blogs insulting ex lover

By Emil Protalinski

On March 10, 2011, 1:38 PM

38-year-old Stephen Andreassen ended a relationship with 36-year-old Rebecca Pattinson, and immediately started creating websites to insult, embarrass, and terrorize her. Andreassen was apparently annoyed that Pattinson said no when he asked her to look at an apartment together after four weeks of dating, so he created up to 35 blogs to get back at her.

Pattinson has been given counselling because of her ordeal and now drives everywhere in case she bumps into Andreassen in the street. "I fear that Stephen will never stop and I can't understand why he is doing this," she told The Telegraph.

After the breakup, Andreassen began bombarding her with calls, e-mails, texts, and Facebook messages begging to be taken back. Pattinson reacted by threatening to call the police, removing all her contact details from her online profiles, and deactivating her Facebook account. Andreassen then set up a series of blogs, posting messages to warn all men about her and listing links to his other websites giving his account of their affair.

At that point, which was sometime last year, he avoided jail by admitting harassment. Instead, he was served with a lifetime restraining order and banned from mentioning Pattinson on any website. Two months later, he was arrested again after he posted another entry on his blog detailing the court case and calling her a liar as well as a sociopath. He was spared a prison sentence once more.

Andreassen went further downhill after he set up a new obsessive website with various pages, including sections labeled The Relationship, My Story, and Court Appearance. He then booked into a hotel in Scotland where he attempted to commit suicide by taking 200 sleeping tablets. Andreassen has finally been jailed for 18 weeks after admitting he violated the restraining order.


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  1. I guess she now knows she made the right decision !!..guy is a scumbag !

  2. They should lock up this creep some place where he won't have access to the Net. Just another example of how technology can be abused by twisted minds.

  3. I feel for the guy. For some reason or another, he was jilted. The story doesn't go into details on what happened, how do any of you know it wasn't the female that instigated this? You don't mess around with love. How do we know she didn't get what was coming to her? How is this man not doing a service by warning others? These questions were not answered.

  4. Guest said:

    how do any of you know it wasn't the female that instigated this?

    Dude did you read the article? First paragraph.

    Andreassen was apparently annoyed that Pattinson said no when he asked her to look at an apartment together after four weeks of dating, so he created up to 35 blogs to get back at her.

    This pretty much means that he instigated the whole thing. His actions say allot about his low self esteem issues and suspect this was more the case, rather then being a jiltered lover. Plus she had to go to the police and is now being councelled because of his actions, that says allot as well

    Guest said:

    How do we know she didn't get what was coming to her?

    I hardly think saying no to looking at appartments justifies what he did, especially only after 4 weeks of dating. Plus they issued a lifetime restraining order and now jailtime, not something handed out over minor love spats.

    Guest said:

    How is this man not doing a service by warning others?

    The guy did provide one service and that was a warning message to other women to stay away from him

  5. the best solution- Rob this man of his computer!

  6. Relic said:

    I doubt jail will do much, this man needs psychiatric help.

    That would be useful. Hopefully it'll be enough for him, since he seems clearly "obsessed" or really interested in this woman. Poor him. Someone should help him, the court appearances clearly was not enough for him.

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