Woman gets five year prison sentence for stalking, harassing former boyfriend

Breakups can be devastating, sometimes it takes time to get over an ex; many women find solace in ice cream tubs, get support from friends while some end up stalking their former partners; others even try to get back at them for the breakup.

A 38-year-old woman from Hammersmith has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for creating hundreds of hoax crime reports to harass her ex-boyfriend. She has also been issued a restraining order.

After her breakup Sandra Danevska sent 134 bogus online reports that resulted in 170 Metropolitan police dispatch logs.

Her complaints implicated her former boyfriend as a suspect for rape, acid attacks and stabbings.

The Isleworth Crown Court found Danevska guilty of three counts of stalking involving serious alarm or distress as well as two counts of perverting the course of justice, a Met Police statement revealed.

Danevska and her former boyfriend dated for a few weeks, ten years ago. They briefly got back together in 2013 but he decided he only wanted to be friends.

That was too much, or too little for Danevska to just let it go. She set up fake social media profiles and created bogus email addresses in her former partners name and sent threats from those accounts to other people.

Besides the online profiles she continued to hound her former boyfriend with prank calls and text messages from various mobile numbers.

Danevska then started sending emails to her former boyfriend commenting on his daily activities leading him to believe he was being followed.

In her 134 bogus online complaints, Danevska used 60 fake identities to implicate her ex, as a suspect in various crimes, leading the police to visit his residence 42 times and his workplace 10 times as a response.

Daneveska also stalked and harassed her boyfriend’s new girlfriend in 2010 whom she sent threatening emails and text messages. She later also created multiple fake online profiles in her name and sent threats to other people from those accounts.

She didn’t even spare the next woman who came in her former boyfriend’s life.

Having dated Danevska’s former boyfriend between 2012 and 2013, the third victim was also visited by the police due to complaints of her involvement in crimes.

Police launched an investigation in Danevska’s actions in 2011 but were unable to identify her as she covered her tracks well. It wasn’t until 2015 that the fake online profiles were traced back to addresses of people employing Danevska as a nanny.

Police then obtained a warrant to search Danevska’s residence and seized SIM cards, computer equipment and a diary in which she kept notes of her former boyfriends movements.

Commenting on the case, Detective Constable Dean Puzey, of Hammersmith and Fulham CID, said, "This woman's actions caused her victims unimaginable distress and the sentence reflects the serious nature of her offending.

"Her actions also caused a massive waste of police time. Throughout Danevska's campaign, 17 of London's 32 boroughs responded to bogus reports of crime as a result of her malicious calls,” he added.