Lydia Abdelmalek, 29, from Melbourne, spent four years using fake Facebook profiles
The woman who cruelly catfished multiple women and led them to believe she was Home and Away star Lincoln Lewis has been jailed.
Lydia Abdelmalek, 29, from Melbourne, spent four years using fake Facebook profiles featuring the Home and Away star and Hollyoaks and Strictly Come Dancing heart-throb Danny Mac to torment women.
She conned two of her victims into romantic relationships, with both women believing they were being courted by the famous actors.
Abdelmalek will spend two years and eight months in prison after she was charged with six counts of stalking her victims.
The women, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on Thursday detailed their traumatic experiences with Abdelmalek.
One victim has since taken her own life, but her sister read to a suburban Melbourne magistrates court a statement dated October 2016.
She said the stalker 'cruelly robbed me of three years of my life in exchange for gaining some perverse pleasure'.
'I have been traumatised beyond belief, pounded with relentless abuse over a long period of time,' the victim wrote.
'The sheer extent and intensity of the stalking over three years... has had a devastating and lasting effect on my life.'
Abdelmalek (pictured) was found guilty of stalking six people and was sentenced to two years and eight months in jail
Melbourne woman Lydia Abelmalek, 29, targeted two air hostesses.
She pretended to be soap stars Lincoln Lewis and Danny Mac.
Abdelmalek conviced the women to stay in online relationships with the fake profiles she had created even when they uncovered her lies.
She created a 'cast of characters' to help maintain her charade.
Abdelmalek sent threatening messages to the women and manipulated them.
The stress was too much for one of them to take and she killed herself.
Abdelmalek was caught out when she turned up to a bank herself to deposit money into the bank account of one of her victims.
She was convicted of stalking six people and will be sentenced in June.
