Woman stalked love rival and sent her photos of dead bodies during ‘campaign of revenge’

A NOTTINGHAM mum-of-two carried out a relentless campaign of stalking against a love rival including sending the victim’s relatives photographs of dead bodies.

Anya Ifall bombarded the woman with phone calls, turned up at the Wollaton hotel where she worked, and created fake Instagram accounts under names such as “love triangle” and “compulsive liar”.

The Bulwell woman threw eggs at the victim’s windows, poured sauce into her apartment and filmed herself banging on her door demanding to see her. Nottingham Crown Court heard how the 29-year-old also threatened to stab the woman in the eye before 10 minutes later turning up at her home.

In a statement, the victim - also a mother – told how the harassment left her “physically drained, always looking over my shoulder and not the person I used to be”.

Handing her a two-year jail term, suspended for two years, Judge Mark Watson said: “You became fixated with her, fixated with causing her distress as part of a campaign of revenge. You were relentless, bringing in her family and friends and besmirching her at all times. As a result of this, she left her job, changed her lifestyle and you caused her significant psychological trauma. “You made her life a misery.” Almas Ben-aribia, prosecuting, said the victim worked at the Travelodge in Derby Road where the defendant’s then partner was a manager and Ifall suspected the two were in a relationship. She said by May 2022, the woman began receiving phone calls from a withheld number where the defendant made abusive comments and said she knew where she lived.

The prosecutor then outlined a number of incidents over the next few months which she said showed “the relentless context of the stalking“.

Miss Ben-aribia said: “She not only contacted her but also her mother, sister-in-law, cousin, friends and work colleagues. She turned up at her place of work and at her address and created fake Instagram accounts. She returned home one time and a substance, believed to be sauce, had been poured into her apartment and an egg thrown at her windows.

“She sent one of the complainant’s friends a video of her at the victim’s address banging on the door and sent a 10-page message to her on Instagram. By October, 2022, she was receiving up to 26 messages a day and on August 14, that year, she sent to the victim’s family members disturbing images of dead bodies with (the victims initials) written underneath.” Miss Ben-aribia said Ifall, of Potter’s Hollow, was arrested, interviewed and denied any stalking.

She said the defendant was then given an interim stalking protection order not to contact the woman or her family but breached that in April, 2023, when she sat in a car outside the address of the victim’s mother.

The prosecutor read out part of two victim impact statements. In one, the woman said: “I feel absolutely torn apart because she was involving people unrelated who I know and telling them lies about me.”

Ifall pleaded guilty to stalking and breaching the protection order and has six previous convictions for 11 offences including threatening behaviour and harassment. Nick Walsh, mitigating, said his client has two very young daughters.

He said: “There is no disputing what she’s done. She had been in a relationship with (the male) for 12 years and discovered the affair which was denied.

“She has a history of self-harm, low self-esteem and almost certainly ADHD and was clearly not coping with all that was happening in her life.

“She is in a much better place now and cannot recognise herself as the person behind all this.”

Judge Watson also ordered the defendant to attend 40 rehabilitation sessions. He also handed Ifall a lifetime restraining order.