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Eleanor Hepburn subjected her ex to a campaign of harassment that left her feeling like she was in a “real life horror movie”

A chef has been jailed after subjecting her ex to a campaign of harassment including posting a dead mouse through her letterbox. Eleanor Hepburn told police “you all think you’re the dog’s b******s” as she was arrested.

The harassment had included Hepburn driving four hours, 230 miles, across the country. She then filmed herself throwing eggs at the house of her former partner’s new girlfriend’s mum, before posting the video on Snapchat.

As part of a campaign of harassment Hepburn, of East Street, Portsmouth, also left a voice note in which she threatened to “absolutely bonnet the fat c***s”. The victim has said that the harassment left her feeling like she was in a “real life horror movie”, and she had to move home as a result, the Liverpool ECHO reports.

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A hearing at Liverpool Crown Court heard that Hepburn had previously been in a relationship with the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons. In September 2023 the pair split up but Hepburn, 22, “wouldn’t leave it” and began bombarding her ex with emails, texts, and phone calls.

At one point she even drove from her home on the South Coast all the way up to Warrington in an attempt to speak to her ex.

Prosecutor Paul Blasbery told the court that the complainant realised she still had a bracelet belonging to the defendant. She arranged for Hepburn to come to her flat on August 26 2024 at 10am to collect it.

But Hepburn had arrived at 1am and started to knock on the door, before returning at 3am and posting cigarettes through the letterbox. She was then seen later across the street “looking at her flat and shouting abuse”.

On September 14 the victim and her new partner arrived home to find four bins stacked up against the front gate barring access to the flat. Hepburn would then confess via text that she had been responsible for the bins.

On September 19 at around 1pm the victim heard a noise at the front door. When she investigated she found that a dead mouse had been posted through the letterbox.

Over the course of the day she and her new partner “were finding dead mice all over the stairs” to the flat, and contacted the police as a result.

Despite the police being contacted Hepburn continued visiting Warrington “every weekend” and “stared through her window, tried her door handle and messed about with her letterbox”.

It was at this time that she also went to the home of her ex’s new partner’s mum, where she threw eggs at the house and posted a video of it on Snapchat.

Hepburn subsequently told the victim during a phone call that she was at a McDonald’s restaurant on Winwick Road in the town and was going to visit her home and post fireworks through her letterbox.

This incident led to Hepburn being arrested. Videos of her with a hammer on her knee were recovered from her phone.

Hepburn was also found to have recorded a voice note in which she stated: “I’ll run them over. I will absolutely bonnet the fat c***s. If you can’t join them, beat them. I’m going to put cat litter all over their door in a f***ing bit. Bringing my name up, f***ing freak.”

Hepburn stated under interview that she had bought the mice frozen from Pets at Home, which sells them as reptile food, and posted them to her ex as she was “p***ed off”, adding that the complainant owed her money and that she had “lost the plot for 10 minutes”.

She went on to tell detectives during a second interview in January this year that she was being stalked by her victim.

Cheshire Police have now released bodycam footage of her arrest, which shows an officer asking whether she is “alright to go through the offences in front of these [other officers] or to do it in private”.

Hepburn replies “I don’t really give a f*** mate” before shouting in response to being handcuffed: “You don’t need to do them tighter do you mate? I’m not f***ing going anywhere. There’s four of you c***s.

“You all think you’re the dog’s b******s. Does it look like I’m f***ing going anywhere mate? Does it look like I’m f***ing going anywhere? So why have you done them f***ing tighter then? There’s four of you c***s isn’t there?”

Hepburn is then reminded that she is under caution, to which she says: “I don’t care, I don’t care. Yes mate, I f***ing did do it.”

In a statement which was read to the court on her behalf last week, the victim said: “This experience has changed me so much that I no longer recognise who I am. I no longer trust myself and constantly question my own thought process.

“My sleep is disturbed every night. I have nightmares about being killed or something bad happening to me or my family. I’ve experienced sleep paralysis on more than one occasion, convinced that Eleanor is in the house with knives or fireworks. I thought I was going to die in a fire due to the threats arising from Eleanor.

“I felt traumatised every day, wondering if I would find something dead in my letterbox, inside my home or outside my front door. Eleanor has destroyed the safe space I created with my partner. Despite my new home, I continue to feel, deep inside, like I made a horrible decision reporting her crimes, like I have something to owe her still.

“Eleanor has caused me serious stress, a lot of anxiety, severe depression and made my life feel like a real life horror movie. Unlike a movie, I can’t just turn the TV off.”

Hepburn has one previous conviction for criminal damage in 2021. Daniel McLoughlin, defending, told the court: “This defendant expects and understands that she may be dealt with extremely seriously. She accepts that what she has done is unacceptable.

“I invite your honour to find that she is extremely remorseful for what she has done. Quite frankly, the details of this case do show a young woman in the midst of her first serious, proper relationship and the breakdown of it.

“The court will be mindful of her youth. She is, perhaps, less of a mature person than others in her age bracket. Part and parcel of that is her diagnosis with autism.

“Since a head injury back when she was 14, she has suffered from seizures. In spite of being generally medicated, she has been suffering from seizures regardless. The difficulty now and since her remand is that she has not had any access to medication whatsoever. She is effectively having fits or seizures every day. As a result of the seizures, she suffers falls and sustains injuries.

“She has a very limited antecedent record. She has dealt with this in a productive way. She is trying to better herself in prison, but it has been a difficult stretch for her.

“She has got a supportive family. She intends to return to the Portsmouth area. She has her flat available. She has a job and stable employment as a chef available to her upon release.”

Appearing via video link to HMP Styal, Hepburn was invited to read out a letter she had written to the court and said: “It’s something I deeply regret. I’m extremely sorry and wish I could turn back time. I completely understand that she would have been upset and scared by this.

“I’ve used my time in custody in a positive way and taken every opportunity given to me. I’m not trying to make any excuses for my behaviour. I just want to convey that I’m sorry and capable of change.”

Hepburn admitted stalking and was jailed for 22 months, having previously been handed a five-year stalking protection order. Sentencing, Judge David Swinnerton said: “Like any 22-year-old, you are capable of change. I accept that much of what lies behind this is immaturity and emotional immaturity.

“What you did stems from your inability to deal with a relationship breaking down. It was an on, off sort of relationship. It may be that you and her had a different view of how serious or otherwise that relationship was. As you mature, you learn that sometimes you discover that is the case.

“You cannot demand that any other human being should love you or want to be with you. That is sometimes sad, but it is true. That is what you have to learn. Sometimes you have to put it down to a bad experience and move on.

“You are still very young. You have your whole life ahead of you. If you want that to be a happy life and avoid prison, you need to learn from this and think very carefully about how you need to behave when you come out. Sometimes, you just need to take the blow and not retaliate. Make sure that you rebuild your life rather than spending more time in Styal.”