Saturday 28 May 2022 03:07 PM Miss England Stephanie Hill: Stalker bombarded her with social media messages trends now
A stalker bombarded a former Miss England with nine months of social media messages and 'left her a shell of her former self', a court heard.
Dhawal Chaudhary, 27, set up 50 accounts to send explicit sexual content along with pictures and diagrams to the 2017 Miss England winner Stephanie Hill.
Ms Hill, who had never met Chaudhary, believes he became infatuated with her when she went to India in 2018 to carry out work for her social media channels.
Miss Hill said she begged and pleaded with Chaudhary, who said he was moving to England from India, to leave her alone but the messages changed and became more aggressive.
He also started messaging her partner Daniel Harper and set up an Instagram page called: 'We will kill Daniel Harper if he doesn't stay away from Stephanie Hill'.
The 27-year-old also wrote in one of these messages shown to the court: 'It's not rape, it's love.'
Chaudhary was given a hospital order and an unlimited restraining order at Derby Crown Court.
Dhawal Chaudhary, 27, set up 50 accounts to send explicit sexual content along with pictures and diagrams to the 2017 Miss England winner Stephanie Hill (pictured as the crown was placed on her head)
He was arrested at Heathrow Airport in July 2021 after arriving back in the UK on a flight from India.
Chaudhary, of no fixed address, appeared via video link from the low-security Wells Road Centre in Nottingham.
While members of Chaudhary's family were in attendance virtually from India.
Addressing the court, Sarah Slater, prosecuting, said the months of abusive messages between October 2020 and June 2021 had left Miss Hill a 'shell of her former self'.
Miss Slater said: 'The first contact she had with him was when she returned to the United Kingdom on October 12, 2020.
'She described that when he started contacting her it was all very normal, but then things developed from there and she started to receive strange messages from him because she wasn't replying fast enough.'
Miss Slater continued that the messages began to contain explicit sexual content along with pictures and diagrams and contained talk about them having grandchildren.
The court heard that when Miss Hill blocked Chaudhary's account he would simply make another one and continue to message her from the new account.
Miss Slater read out a statement from Miss Hill from Derbyshire: 'It was relentless and took all the joy out of her job and helping people.'
Miss Hill tried to change her name and act like she had left the company she was working for, but that only worked for a few days with Chaudhary telling her he was going to travel to the UK, study
