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SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Lydia Abdelmalek left a victim "traumatized beyond belief".
An Australian who imitated an Australian star on the soap opera with the aim of taking on unsuspecting women was jailed for her complex scam, but was almost immediately released on bail while she appealed of the sentence.
Lydia Abdelmalek, 29, was sentenced Thursday to two years and eight months in prison for six counts of harbadment.
Previously, she sat in Heidelberg Court of First Instance, seizing a photograph of At home and on the outside thrilling, Lincoln Lewis, that she imitated.
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Lincoln Lewis is one of the stars of the Home and Away series.
Abdelmalek took several pseudonyms, including Lewis, to hunt down many people for about four years starting in May 2011.
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The victims, who can not be named for legal reasons, and their families cried when the stalker was imprisoned.
But Abdelmalek quickly appealed his conviction. She was released on bond with bail of A $ 10,000 and was sentenced to appear in the County Court on June 28.
Prior to Thursday's conviction, victims read statements detailing the ongoing cyberbullying.
One victim died last year, but wrote a statement in 2016 describing the trauma of believing that the TV star was in love with her.
"I have been traumatized beyond belief, beaten for centuries with incessant abuse," she wrote in a statement read in court by her sister.
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Lydia Abdelmalek is appealing her prison sentence.
"The extent and intensity of criminal harbadment for three years … have had a devastating and lasting effect on my life."
She stated that the stalker "stole me cruelly three years of my life in exchange for a perverse pleasure".
In the statement, the woman stated that she was planning to commit suicide but did not want to become "another statistic". She died in October 2018.
Abdelmalek even sent explicit images of the woman and vulgar messages to her father, mother and brother-in-law and also threatened to harm them and her niece.
The victim's sister stated that justice had arrived too late.
"(She) will never mitigate the life sentence my family has been sentenced to … a life without my sister-in-law," she sobbed.
Another woman explained how criminal harbadment had turned her into a loner of party life.
"I feel unworthy, I am ashamed of myself and I blame my own stupidity," she said.
See Lewis, 31, and his father – the great Wally Lewis – in magazines or on television triggering his post-traumatic stress disorder, she added.
"It's like I can never get away from what she's been doing to us."
Abdelmalek had his arm around his mother as the victims spoke and held photographs of Lewis.
She showed no emotion when she was taken away by prison guards, but she returned to court shortly thereafter to appeal.
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