A Norfolk man who harassed four women online during the Covid pandemic has been jailed for four years.
Matthew Venthem, 25, used aliases to send the women who he stalked online numerous messages purporting to be other people.
He also contacted others who were known to the victims.
Venthem, of Summerwood Estate, in Great Massingham, near King's Lynn, appeared at Norwich Crown Court to be sentenced.
He had previously pleaded guilty to four counts of stalking between March 2019, and November 2021.
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He admitted pursuing a course of conduct which amounted to stalking and which he knew or ought to have known amounted to harassment.
One of the women was stalked for 18 months, while a second suffered harassment between January 2020 and November 2021, a third between December 2018 and August 2021 and another for 12 months from October 2020.
Judge Katharine Moore sentenced him to four years imprisonment, having previously adjourned his sentencing for updated reports, looking at aspects of his health, including autism and neurodiversity.
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