A mother of two has been jailed after she threatened to say he was a paedophile unless he hand over £100,000. Dog groomer Deborah Hatton, 42, drove her victim to consider taking his own life in 2021 after she was told he had abused her friend as a child.
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He denied the allegation, but she then tried to extort him and her lawyer Ian Morris said she ‘felt [he] should make good and pay for what happened’. Judge Abigail Hudson told her Hatton, from Wigan, ‘You believed the allegation to be true. But I am astonished that anyone in your position could have perceived that the appropriate action in these circumstances was to reduce something so personal to cash – but you did.’.
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She added: ‘There may well have been a desire to go to the police – but that was coupled with threats to make him a walking target.’. After hearing of the alleged abuse, Hatton started to make threats, telling him to pay £100 into her friend’s account every week otherwise she would out him as a paedophile.
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One message said: ‘Your next visit is not going to be from me.’. Hatton’s victim lost so much weight in a matter of weeks that he started to look ill, a fact Hatton herself had noticed. The judge said: ‘When you saw him, you noted how ill he looked and commented upon how much weight he had lost – but could manage no humanity and instead sent him a message again threatening to destroy his life if he didn’t pay.’.
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