On one occasion Judge emailed the man’s cousin saying she was going burn down their home, and the family’s two young girls would “burn alive”. She then started harassing her ex-partner’s friend circle, messaging one friend: "You’re going down and I’m going to f—k up uni for you ... kill yourself you ugly pathetic fat slut." The messages escalated to the point where Judge said she had photos of the friend's partner cheating at a Joondalup nightclub, leading to the woman taking out a VRO against her. However, Judge messaged the woman the day before she went to court with the threat: "I hope you’ve prepared for what happens to you ... you won’t make it to court tomorrow." Police said Judge's behaviour again escalated when she found the work address of one of her ex-partner’s friends, and began emailing his employer.

She sent eight emails in June 2017 claiming he dealt drugs on site, owed a significant drug debt to "a lot of people", and there were "people with guns who would not have a problem stopping by" the workplace to recoup the alleged debt. She did the same to another of her ex’s friends – even threatening to bomb his workplace – before breaching a VRO to report the same woman for dealing drugs on Edith Cowan University’s campus. In her emails, she said people would be coming to recoup the debt "even if it means burning the uni down". "If these debts are not paid off there will be people down there searching every building for her," she wrote. As she continued to be served with VROs from several different people, the court heard she had tried to hack into two people’s tertiary enrolments, hacked her ex’s Facebook profile to say he and his new girlfriend had broken up, and set up two fake Instagram accounts – one posing as the new girlfriend.

I told you I'd f--kn destroy you ... you all want to turn [ex] against me, and get VROs ... you're going to be dead what's coming your way. Keep your dog inside - the fluffy white one, he's going to get his throat slit. One of the messages Amy Judge sent to her ex-partner's friend Police said at one point, Judge used the fake Instagram account to message her ex and suggest he consider getting back together with her. Judge was imprisoned on four occasions because of her repeated VRO and bail breaches. A police prosecutor said what was particularly concerning was how Judge used her time in prison in February 2018, when she made friends with another inmate and learned about their partner, who was also in jail. When Judge was released back into the community, she started up a new Instagram posing as the inmate she met and adopted her identity.

At the time, Judge’s younger sister was in an argument with a distant relative, and Judge chose to contact the 11-year-old from the fake account, abusing her while she was at a sleepover with a friend. In the messages, Judge called the relative her friend “mouthy c—ts”, and threatened to take the girls into bushland and cut their fingers off. She told them she was a former prisoner whose fiancée was in prison on deprivation of liberty charges, told her relative to kill herself, and threatened to “slit her two-year-old sister’s throat”. The young girls soon realised they were speaking to Judge and not her fake Instagram identity, but one became so distressed she had a panic attack and slept with a knife. Judge hacked her ex's Facebook profile and asked all his friends to block his new girlfriend. Credit:Jacky Ghossein

The court also heard Judge would use fake names to contact WA emergency services' NRS system – designed to help people with disabilities contact triple-zero – and report hoax calls to the addresses of her ex, his friends, his family, her own family and previous acquaintances. On these occasions, she would contact police and lie about why she needed assistance, with her claims including that she had been assaulted and locked in a bathroom; that she had seen a woman strangled by her partner; or that someone at the property was threatening to kill themselves. WA Police and St John Ambulance attended more than a dozen hoax calls on priority and often found people at the addresses provided were linked to Judge in some way. A police prosecutor said it was WA Police’s intention to recoup the costs of the emergency callouts, which amounted to $16,291. “A lot of public resources were wasted,” he said.

Loading Judge’s defence lawyer said she had since received a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, which was a likely causal factor in her offending. He said Judge had been imprisoned for more than nine months now and it had given her time to reflect and analyse her behaviour. “She has learned her lesson in prison your Honour, she does feel quite remorseful for her charges,” he said. But the police prosecutor said in past cases where she had been released from prison, it was often a matter of days before Judge would reoffend.