A MODEL who branded herself “Devil Baby” while stalking Mason Mount after a one-off tryst has been spared jail.
Orla Melissa Sloan, 22, targeted Chelsea star Mount, 24, as well as Ben Chilwell, 26, and Brighton’s Billy Gilmour, 21, as her obsession grew.
The Instagram influencer, who has 81,000 followers, bombarded the stars with persistent calls and messages.
Sloan, who was seen partying in Marbella on Sunday night, was spared jail when she was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today.
She was instead handed a 12 week sentence suspended for 18 months and told to pay the millionaire stars a total of £1,100 in compensation – £500 to Mount and £300 to Chilwell and Gilmour.
The model was also handed a restraining order preventing her from contacting the footballing trio and will have to perform 200 hours of unpaid work.
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Sloan, who wore a white dress, headband and black jacket, asked her lawyer Michael Cogan to publicly apologise to Mount, Chilwell and Gilmour.
The court was told by her mum, who describes herself on Facebook as a Reiki and Shamanic healer, that her daughter is “addicted” to social media.
She previously admitted one count of harassment one of stalking and one count of stalking involving fear of violence or serious alarm or distress.
The latter charge carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison.
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Chair of the bench Alison Gowman branded the stalking campaign “sustained and deliberate” as she handed down her sentence.
The court was told the influencer was invited to a party at Chilwell’s house after chatting to him over Instagram.
She slept with Mount once after meeting him at the bash and the pair chatted “sporadically” for around six months until he cut things off.
But Sloan then sent a string of messages to the star following the one-off tryst last year.
She also changed her number 21 times when the footballer kept blocking her.
Sloan sent Mount a screenshot of her paying £12.99 for a new number from Apple, saying: “I’m not buying food anymore so I can get more numbers.
“I will be faster than you.”
In another text, the model laid out a list of women’s names she claimed she had “found out about”.
She then chillingly added: “I will find out everything.”
Also also messaged saying she was “finding it really hard to move on”.
She continued: “You must accept my apology and say sorry or you will meet a new character called devil baby.
“Beware of devil baby Mason I can morph any second so let me apologise and make things right.”
Not content with just messaging the Chelsea star, Sloan bombarded Gilmour with messages about Mount.
She also made an Instagram account with the username DevilBaby_10, which she used to create collages of Chilwell with other women.
The stalker, who previously revealed she raked in £50,000 eating Percy Pigs while naked, tagged his family and friends in the “completely fictitious” posts.
In a statement, Mount told how he was left terrified Sloan would show up at the Chelsea training centre after he blocked her.
He said: “I have repeatedly made it clear to her I no longer wish to hear from her and I have blocked her on multiple occasions and I believe this was a clear message.
“I now believe she has an obsession and fixation with me and I don’t know what she would be capable of.
“She knows my address and the address of my training centre.
“Her behaviour has been erratic and I am worried that now she is unable to contact me she might turn up at the training centre and that is why I have now contacted the police.
“I’m worried her persistent attempted to contact anyone I follow will ruin friendships and potential relationships.”
While Gilmour said the stalking continued even after he moved to Brighton in September 2022 on a £9million deal from Chelsea.
His new club put safety measures in place after he expressed his concerns over Sloan.
Gilmour was also forced to delete all his friends and family from Instagram so she could not contact them.
He said: “I have not been able to sleep and I have had to take sleeping tablets which has affected my performance.”
The star added: “Being alone in a new town where I didn’t have any friends or family is very isolating.
“This is a person I met once for a brief period of time.”
In mitigation, Sloan’s lawyer said she was an “enterprising young woman” who was “dazzled” when she met Mount.
Mr Cogan added: “The reality was as far as Mr Mount was concerned he never intended it to be a lasting relationship.
“For someone like Ms Sloan she felt somewhat discarded and she wanted to know why.
“She thought there was something there in circumstances where everyone else knew there was nothing.
“She had been sucked into a world of instant gratification achieved only by being seen with other more people more successful than herself.
“As a result of that she obsesses over the way she looks and how she feels other people view her.”
The lawyer also said Sloan’s “isolation became complete” during Covid when she was living with her dad in an isolated area.
He said she moved to London at the first given opportunity, where she now lives in a world where “superficial social connections have greater importance and replace the harsh reality of life”.
Sloan admitted stalking Mount between June 19, 2022 to October 28 and Scots international Gilmour between September 10 2022, and October 28.
She also pleaded guilty to harassing Chilwell between October 20 and 29.
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