A sick stalker told an RAF woman he hoped she would be killed in action as he waged a terrifying campaign of harassment.
Barry Wemyss subjected Corinne Ellis to disgusting abuse after she rebuffed him on a dating website.
He created different online profiles to repeatedly make contact with her – and threatened to make her life a “living” hell.
Wemyss, of Fraserburgh, appeared at Elgin Sheriff Court yesterday and admitted sending messages which were “grossly offensive” and of a “menacing character”.
The 33-year-old contacted RAF Lossiemouth-based Ms Ellis over the internet between the start of June and late July.
After she told him she was not interested in meeting him, he created several different online profiles.
In one chilling exchange, he threatened to have people he knew “make her life a living hell”.
Fiscal Kevin Corrins said that Ms Ellis had never previously spoken to Wemyss until he contacted her via the Plenty of Fish site on Wednesday, June 1.
Mr Corrins said: “She received a private message from a male, but she decided she wasn’t interested in him and ignored the message.
“She later received another message from the same person, which she again did not reply to, and then blocked him from making further contact.”
The court heard that on Saturday, July 23, Ms Ellis received another message from a different profile – but when she read it she realised it was from Wemyss.
The fiscal added: “The accused was asking why she had blocked him from making contact, and referred to her as a stuck up cow and other more obscene terms.
“Ms Ellis asked him to calm down, and said there was no need for that type of language.
“Wemyss also made a remark about her ‘going with anyone’, and commented that he hoped she would be killed when on deployment.”
After Ms Ellis again blocked Wemyss, he created a third Plenty of Fish account and continued to bombard her with “derogatory comments”.
The court heard that he claimed he “knew a few people at RAF Lossiemouth”, and that “with a quick message, he could make her life a living hell”.
Ms Ellis then contacted the police.
Wemyss, of Hamilton Road, Fraserburgh, was traced and detained on Thursday, July 28, and admitted he had sent the disturbing messages.
Mr Corrins added: “He told officers that he did not mean for it to escalate the way it did.”
His agent, solicitor David Adam, said first offender Wemyss was “more than remorseful” about his conduct.
He added: “There’s no getting away from the nature of these messages, and the complainer does not know my client at all.
“Some time seemed to elapse between the initial blocking and when he took it upon himself to send these messages, and he was under the influence of alcohol when he did that.”
Sheriff Chris Dickson ordered Wemyss to remain under police supervision for the next nine months, and to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work.
Sheriff Dickson said: “This was clearly an unpleasant episode, and the complainer would have been rightly very concerned about what you were saying in the messages.
“She was a complete stranger to you.”
