The cruel messages a stalker pretending to be actor Lincoln Lewis sent to women have been revealed in court as her victims share details of the relentless cyber bullying they suffered.
Melbourne woman Lydia Abdelmalek, 29, clutched pictures of the Home and Away star at she sat in the Heidelberg Magistrates Court awaiting sentencing on Thursday.
She spent four years using fake Facebook profiles featuring the Mr Lewis and Hollyoaks heartthrob Danny Mac to torment women.
Lydia Abdelmalek (pictured), 29, from Melbourne, spent four years of her life tricking women using fake Facebook profiles
Abdelmalek (pictured) was able to deceive the women and manipulate them into becoming fearful for their lives
Abdelmalek bombarded her victims with anonymous threatening messages (recreated messages pictured)
She later sent threatening messages to the women.
'Wen r u going 2 kill urself?' one message read.
'Ur life is bout to cum crashin dwn n no 1 can help ya,' another message said.
The victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and their families cried when she was sentenced to two years and eight months behind bars.
Magistrate Stephen Ballek said the stalking was 'calculated and cruel' and noted Abdelmalek refused to explain her actions and hadn't shown remorse.
Abdelmalek appealed the sentence and was granted bail with a $10,000 surety and ordered to appear in the County Court on June 28.
As part of her bail conditions she will have to abide by social media restrictions.
Before Thursday's sentencing, victims read statements detailing the relentless cyber bullying they suffered.
Abdelmalek sent threatening messages to the women and manipulated them (recreated messages pictured)
One victim took her own life last year, but penned a statement in 2016 outlining the trauma of being duped to believe the TV star was in love with her.
'I have been traumatised beyond belief, hounded with relentless abuse and nasty threats over a long period of time,' she wrote in the statement read to court by her sister.
'I felt like a person being randomly targeted and stripped of their freedom ... tortured not for any crimes or wrongs committed, but for just the sick fascination, perverse pleasure and unhealthy satisfaction of the tormentor.'
Actor Lincoln Lewis has slammed the manipulative 'catfish' who pretended to be the
