FIZZING MAD
Twisted stalker’s victims hit out as she flaunts her early release with champagne pics
VICTIMS of a notorious stalker hit out after she posted photos of herself quaffing champagne after serving just three months of a one-year jail term.
Jill Sharp was slammed by a sheriff when he jailed her over her “disgraceful and wicked” terror campaign. But instead of showing regret for her conduct, Sharp has instead put photos of herself and partner Craig Hale drinking bubbly on Facebook. Sharp, a Rangers fan now ridiculed and disowned by many supporters, wept in the dock at Livingston Sheriff Court in July when she was sentenced to 12 months for waging a twisted campaign of hate against former pal Maggie Paton and her husband Steve. Yesterday, Steve, 60, blasted the stalker, saying: “There is a total lack of remorse for what she put us through. This obsession she has with champagne is sad but we won’t be intimidated by her. “It seems ridiculous that Sharp was sentenced to 12 months but only served three and is out before Christmas.
“But the whole world now knows what she did after she admitted it in court. She is the type to just keep squirming and denying everything but even her friends and family know she is an obsessive stalker and fantasist.
“She may have got out of jail early but her reputation has been destroyed forever by what she did to us. She is a laughing stock at Ibrox and you would have to be off your head to believe she is innocent after all the details emerged in court.”
Sharp’s jail experience did nothing to stop her defiance. She reactivated her Facebook account and posted photos of her and Hale sipping champagne.
The couple, who both still live with their parents, wore matching Rangers pyjamas but other fans on Twitter made clear that they are not welcome at old haunts like the Louden Tavern, a well-known Rangers pub.
One tweeted: “All joking aside, disgraceful those two maniacs still think it’s acceptable to post the stuff they do.
“Welcome Home balloons, the lot, knowing the fact it’ll get a reaction and she will be bold enough to flaunt herself in the Louden the next home game.”
Sharp, 33, created fake online profiles as she tormented Margaret, 58, and Steve over a three-year period.
She sent emails to the couple’s
workplaces with false claims they were involved in criminal activity, including dealing drugs to kids.
During Sharp’s sentencing, Sheriff Douglas Kinloch said she “succeeded” in ruining the Patons’ lives, leaving them on medication and unable to work for lengthy periods.
He said he had considered calling for a psychiatric assessment of Sharp in a bid to shed light on her behaviour.
But he didn’t believe such a report could explain her “deliberate and malicious” crimes, which showed a “high degree of planning”.
The Record first exposed Sharp’s activities in February 2017 when we told how she stalked a man who had never met her and didn’t know who she was.
Sharp, of Airdrie, created a fake second life using photos Graham McQuet and his fiancee Marianne Stirling had shared on social media.
We told how she copied their movements so she could be pictured in places they had visited, then posted loved-up images on social media.
She also set up a fake Twitter account for her “boyfriend” and sent romantic messages between them, as well as explicit details of an imaginary sex life.
At court, Iain Smith, defending, said: “She takes no pleasure in what she did. She regrets it.”