text: 'Extreme stalker' hacked into woman's CCTV system to spy on her | Metro News
  Stalker hacked into woman's home CCTV then sent victim clips of herself relaxing
  Jordan KingSunday 25 Oct 2020 5:31 pm
  George Coughlan downloaded 67 videos from his victim's CCTV (Picture: SWNS)
  A stalker hacked into a woman's security cameras then sent footage of her relaxing in her own living room in a campaign of harrassment.
  George Coughlan, 33, bombarded his victim with hundreds of messages from 61 different social media accounts as well as downloading dozens of clips from her CCTV cameras.
  One of the messages said: 'I will [make] it my dying breath to [make your] life end too. And his.
  Coughlan has now been jailed for nearly two years after police found extensive Google searches on his computer in a bid to cover his tracks.
  He had also researched phone spyware to track text messages, calls, social apps and GPS movements and the name of his victim and her partner.
  The stalker sent hundreds of terrifying messages to his victim (Picture: SWNS)
  Coughlan used 61 different social media accounts to contact his victim (Picture: SWNS)
  Wolverhampton Court sentenced George Coughlan to 21 months in jail and imposed a five-year restraining order on him (Picture: SWNS)
  There were 1,625 people stalked in 2019, of whom 1,065 were female and 610 were male, the Crime Survey for England and Wales states.