Man found guilty in online harassment

VANCOUVER — A man accused of trying to emotionally ruin the life of his ex-wife using online posts was found guilty Wednesday of criminal harassment by a B.C. Supreme Court jury.

The court heard Patrick Fox’s tactics included threatening emails, blog postings and a website about Desiree Capuano, who lives in Arizona.

Crown attorney Mark Myhre told the court Fox’s hatred for Capuano was so intense he used their teenage son as a pawn, reading to the jury a number of emails sent between 2014 and 2016 in which Fox declared that his goal was to “destroy” Capuano’s life.

Myhre outlined 10 ways in which Fox’s actions constituted criminal harassment of Capuano, saying Fox falsely maligned her as a white supremacist, a child abuser and a drug user in a blog that was purportedly written by Capuano.