Woman sent messages to ‘bully’ telling her to ‘dig your own grave’

An Aberdeen woman contacted a teenager on Snapchat who she believed was bullying another child and told her she was going to come to her home and violently assault her.

Jemma Simpson appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court to admit making threats to the 15-year-old girl.

The court heard Simpson, 29, added the child to a Snapchat group that included some of her school friends and warned them she would “smash” them one by one.

Her solicitor told the court Simpson “totally regrets” the matter.

Fiscal depute Georgia Laird told the court that on November 25 2022, Simpson set up a group on the social media app Snapchat before adding the fourth-year pupil and a number of her schoolfriends.

Simpson then sent various voice recordings to the group referencing the 15-year-old girl.

One message stated: “I’m just going to meet you for a straightener,” while another warned all the girls she was going to “smash” them “one by one”.

Speaking to the girl directly, Simpson told her she would be coming to her door, before adding: “I’ll feed your face to the concrete.”

And: “Get a shovel because you have to dig your own grave.”

Alarmed, the girl told her mum who reported Simpson to the police.

Simpson pleaded guilty to sending online messages that were menacing, in that she made numerous threats of violence.

Defence solicitor Lynn Bentley said her client “accepted it was her voice” in the messages.

The solicitor added that a child had been “the victim of relentless bullying” by the teenager she sent the messages to “and her friends”.

Sheriff Donald Ferguson told Simpson: “The authorities should be doing something about this situation.

“But you should not have taken the matter into your own hands.”

The sheriff ordered Simpson, of North Anderson Drive, to be of good behaviour for six months.

Jemma Simpson.