Courtney Ireland-Ainsworth has been jailed for 10 months at Liverpool Crown Court after lying to police over her ex-boyfriend
A 'poisonous' ex-girlfriend who sent herself threats from fake Instagram accounts to get an innocent man locked up has been jailed for 10 months.
Courtney Ireland-Ainsworth created up to 30 false profiles, then told police her former partner Louis Jolly was behind 'vile' messages that she said had been sent to her.
The DHL worker, who was 19 at the time, reported him for supposedly threatening to stab her and warning: 'She is getting a f***ing blade in her chest.'
She made 10 police statements claiming Mr Jolly was harassing and stalking her, leading to him being arrested six times and spending 81 hours in custody, including being remanded overnight.
Mr Jolly was arrested six times, charged with assault and stalking, hit with a stalking protection order, bailed on a home curfew with an electronic tag, and even lost his job.
Recorder Ian Harris today told Ireland-Ainsworth: 'You created an entirely fictional but superficially credible web of poisonous deceit for over five months.'
Mr Jolly, 22, said they were together for two years but split up on 'okay terms' in October 2019, before Ireland-Ainsworth started seeing a new boyfriend, a man called Declan Rice.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Ireland-Ainsworth, now 20, of Brackendale, Runcorn, then began her 'deliberate and malevolent lies'.
Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, said she made numerous calls to police from July 15 to December 13, 2020, and provided screenshots of messages and the names of Instagram accounts, which she attributed to her victim.
The court heard Ireland-Ainsworth alleged Mr Jolly called her from withheld numbers, stalked her, her friends and her new partner, filmed her walking down the street and sent her the video, verbally and physically abused her and made false claims she was using cocaine;
She also told police he smashed items in her house, put a brick through her nan's window and threatened to stab her and her boyfriend
Recorder Harris said: 'You stated after he had been arrested the stalking became worse.
'You provided images of damage to property and you yourself, as to where you said he knifed you with a Stanley knife, and there was a scar on your chest.'
In her fourth statement on October 21, she claimed he'd told Mr Rice online: 'Wait til I see her, she is getting a f***ing blade in her chest fully this time.'
Locking her up for 10 months and making a 10-year restraining order at Liverpool Crown Court, a judge told her she persisted in 'deliberate and malevolent lies' which wasted police time
Ireland-Ainsworth's mother rang police on November 15, saying Mr Jolly had threatened to stab her online.
Detectives made a request for data from Facebook, which owns Instagram, but Mr Blasbery said 'this data took some time to be released to the police'.
Mr Jolly was hit with an interim stalking protection order on December 4, and bailed for six weeks with an electronically
