A social media influencer named 'Devil Baby' has received a suspended prison term for stalking three Premier League footballers. Orla Melissa Sloan used phone numbers to stalk the Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount for four months between June 19 and October 28 last year. She was also involved in stalking then-Chelsea midfielder Billy Gilmour and Blues left-back Ben Chilwell.
Orla Melissa Sloan stalked Gilmour between September 10 and October 28 and harassed Chilwell between October 20 and 29 last year. Now for her actions, she has received a 12-week suspended sentence of 18 months. She has been further asked to pay a total of £1,100 in compensation - £500 to Mount and £300 to Chilwell and Gilmour. A restraining order has also been issued that prevents Orla Melissa Sloan from contacting the footballing trio.
Coming back to the legal proceedings, the court was told Sloan and Mount had intercourse after they met at a party at Chilwell's home in November 2020. Further, Prosecutor Jason Seetal told that the pair were in contact for about six months before Mount "decided that the relationship was not going to progress".
He said: “Upon informing Miss Sloan of this, he has been subjected to a bombardment of messages. “He began asking her to stop messaging him before blocking the number. He then began to receive messages from new numbers and each time he would block those numbers, there would be messages from a different number.”
Addressing these constant phone calls Mount expressed that he was “concerned she had an obsession or fixation with him and he didn’t know what she was capable of”. He further said in a victim impact statement, “Miss Sloan knows roughly where I live and where I train. “I’m worried as if she is unable to contact me she might turn up at my training centre.”
The court also heard other messages targetting other players, friends and family members, including Chilwell. The left-back told how he found Sloan’s behaviour “erratic”, while Scotland’s Gilmour expressed that her messages “huge impact” on his life after he joined Brighton from Chelsea in September last year.
