'How could he do this to me? He wrecked my life': Hell of woman harassed online for three years by mystery stalker who turned out to be her own BOYFRIEND



Shane Webber sent naked pictures of girlfriend to friends and family

Ruth Jeffery became so ill she was prescribed anti-depressants

Couple who met at school knew each other for 10 years

A university student who was harassed by an internet stalker for three years - which turned out to be her own boyfriend - says he has 'wrecked her life'.



Ruth Jeffery, who confided in Shane Webber during the horrific ordeal, contemplated suicide after being bombarded with sexually explicit photos and videos.



She also suffered the indignity of having naked images of herself posted on adult websites and distributed to family and friends, including her parents.



Ultimate betrayal: Shane Webber's online harassment made girlfriend Ruth Jeffery so ill she was prescribed anti-depressants and aborted their unborn child 'Stressed': Miss Jeffery was badly affected by her boyfriend's online abuse campaign

When police eventually uncovered the identity of her tormentor, 22-year-old Miss Jeffery was sickened to learn it was her own boyfriend.



School drop-out Webber launched his twisted campaign because he was jealous of Miss Jeffery’s life at Loughborough University.



He is now facing jail after a court heard how he also went online posing as Miss Jeffery.



He contacted men saying she was sexually attracted to them and gave them her university address. One man turned up at her student house and had to be turned away.

Unemployed Webber, 22, continued his evil campaign despite knowing he was making his girlfriend ill.

She was prescribed anti-depressants, developed symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder and even stopped eating at times.



The abuse affected her so badly that she had to retake exams for her computer science course.

Clue: Miss Jeffery eventually realised that some of the detail in the messages could only be known to Webber

Online campaign: Images of Webber and his girlfriend. He hacked into her email account and sent a naked picture of her to her contact list, including her father

Webber pleaded guilty to causing harassment, alarm or distress at Southampton magistrates’ court, and will be sentenced next month.

Yesterday Miss Jeffery said she was still trying to have some of the naked pictures of her he posted on the internet taken down.



‘I want him to be put in prison because he has wrecked the past three and a half years of my life,’ she said.



‘We were really close. We did everything together. I would tell him everything.’



The couple met at school when they were both 11.



Evil campaign: Webber continued to stalk his girlfriend despite knowing that it was making her ill

They were teenage sweethearts but split up before reuniting in 2007, when Miss Jeffery was in the sixth form.



But Webber had dropped out of school at 14 and Miss Jeffery believes he may have been trying to stop her from obtaining a degree because he had no qualifications himself.

He began his campaign of abuse by setting up multiple fake email addresses to pose as former schoolfriends. He used these to send sexually explicit photos and videos to Miss Jeffery.



He then began impersonating her and distributing photos of her to family and friends, as well as online.



Miss Jeffery added: ‘It made me feel sick and so stressed because it was happening every single day.



‘There were times when I phoned up my mum and said, “I don’t want to be alive any more”.