Social media influencer Orla Sloan pleaded guilty to stalking involving fear of violence or serious alarm or distress against Billy Gilmour, a charge of stalking Mason Mount, and another allegation of harassing Ben Chilwell, on Wednesday in the Westminster magistrates court.
Sloan had bombarded the Mason Mount, Ben Chilwell and Billy Gilmour with messages after she briefly dated Mount and he ended their relationship.
She met the players back in 2020 when they were all playing for Chelsea at a party at Chilwell's house.
“Following that, Mr Mount and Ms Sloan slept together once”, said prosecutor Jason Seetal. “There was communication between them for around six months and Mr Mount decided that the relationship wasn’t going to progress anymore.
“He decided to end contact with Ms Sloan,” after which Mount was bombarded with messages and phone calls from 21 different phone numbers set up by Sloan even after being asked to end all contact.
Sloan even sent a picture of herself buying a new number to Mount with the caption: “I’m not buying food anymore so I can get more numbers – I will be faster than you”.
“Some of the messages are apologetic, saying ‘I really wanted to say sorry to you, talk to me and let me know how you feel’”, said the prosecutor.
At this point Sloan told Mount about her alter ego called 'devil baby' and said: “You and Ben (Chilwell) will be destroyed. Beware of devil baby Mason, I can morph in a second.”
“He was concerned she had an obsession or fixation with him and didn’t know what she could be capable of”, explained Mr Seetal as it was revealed that Sloan created an Instagram account named devilbaby_10 where she posted pictures of Mount with other women and called him a "criminal".
She even tried to contact his colleagues, friends and family.
In a statement, Mount said: “She knows roughly where I live and where I train. I am worried when unable to contact me she might turn up at my training centre.”
The court heard that she also posted images of Chilwell, tried to contact him and even made claims about his sexuality.
Billy Gilmour had had contact with Sloan for a little while after the party where the footballers met her and in the summer of 2022, she started stalking him.
She made claims online that she was pregnant with Gilmour's child but Mr Seetal stated: “Mr Gilmour has never been in an intimate relationship with Ms Sloan.”
"I have not been able to sleep and have had to take sleeping tablets," said Gilmour in court.
“It had a knock-on effect on my performance”, and added that he was “extremely stressed” and had “feelings of panic”.
“For a period of time I was consistently receiving notifications of messages from Orla, or contacted by people she was harassing.
“I was worried not only for myself but also those targeted by Orla.”
Gilmour said that he even had to cut off contact with friends and female acquaintances to protect them from Sloan.
Sloan has been released on bail by District Judge Neeta Minhas until a sentencing hearing on June 20. The judge also warned her that her case could go to the crown court and she could end up with a prison sentence.
Sloan has admitted stalking Mount from June to October 2022, harassing Chilwell towards the end of October 2022, and stalking Gilmour between September 10 and October 28, 2022.
