A POLICE officer who became “fixated” with a married man, hacked his social media accounts and posted slurs about his wife, a court has heard.
Ashley Boyd, 26, developed an obsession with Kevin O’Connor who is married to her former friend, and sent messages to his friends pretending to be him about his “unhappy marriage”.
She changed his relationship status on Facebook to “single” and posted an offensive comment about his wife Rhona on his Twitter account, as him.
Boyd even had a friend give a false statement to police taking the blame for the Twitter post in a twisted attempt to divert the blame.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court, Boyd, from Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire pled guilty to “engaging in a course of conduct which cased Rhona and Kevin O’Connor fear and alarm” by stalking, between June and September last year.
She also admitted a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The court heard there was “absolutely no romantic or sexual relationship” between Mr O’Connor and Boyd.
Procurator fiscal depute Andrew Beadsworth said: “Boyd appears to have become fixated upon Kevin O’Connor” after they became friends while working for Boots but it had deteriorated by the end of 2013.
Sentence was deferred until next month.
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