My story –
May 2011
Seb first got in touch with me in May 2011 through the dating
website Smooch (yes, I know, I die). His first approach was forward, to say the least: ‘so when are
you going to ask me out then?’. Usually
I’d be put right off this sort of arrogant approach, but shallowly I liked his
pictures, he ticked all the right boxes and I liked the cut of his jib from his
profile. Plus I’d just started a blog called 52 First Dates where I forced
myself to go on an internet date every week for a year, and I needed to line up
my second date, and Seb seemed like a good enough option. So we started
messaging through the site and eventually exchanged numbers to sort out a date.
Within a very
short space of time, he had bulldozed his way into my life in epic style. But
before we move onto that, I would like you to meet Sebastian P-J, known as Seb,
or affectionately known as the boy with the disabled eyes and the Sticklebrick
hair:
So here’s his story. Seb is 35 years old, has an older brother
Josh, a policeman and sister Amy, a radiographer married to Gary,
another policeman. His mum Trish and dad still live in Wales and after many
years of marriage have a date night every night. He lives alone in his own 4
bedroomed house in a gated development in Marylebone (part bought thanks to his
granny), and works as a primary school teacher in Westminster, in line to
become Deputy Head.
His ex girlfriend Laura used to work in A&E and
tragically died of breast cancer a few years ago. He’d stayed with her til the
bitter end, despite her wanting him to father her children as she was dying
which put him through incredible emotional strain. Since Laura, he has been on
his own with the exception of an alleged affair with a daytime television
presenter. He likes to paint, makes excellent roast potatoes, loves Swansea
City, adores his 3 year old niece Tilly and his ‘sexy gran’, used to play the
drums in a band and last year did a photographic challenge during which he had
to photograph himself doing something new every day. His granddad
is stricken with Alzheimers and Seb is the glue to keep them all together.
His best friend is 'Phillip' who was severely disabled as a result of botched childhood innoculations. They'd been to school together, and Seb would regularly visit him. He is a huge football fan, and they'd regularly go to watch matches together.
Seb
is sweet, sensitive, the life and soul of the party, and on paper he is quite
possibly the perfect boyfriend. And reading all of this back now the same
warning bells I had at the time are ringing again.
One thing
that did concern me about Seb was from an early stage, his flirting technique
needed work. He could be seedy. So each time he crossed one of these tasteless
lines, I would tell him to stop being a sex pest, and to be-fucking-have. And,
like any sensitive man would, he'd get back behind the line he had crossed. Against
my better judgement, because I had to meet my quota for 52 First Dates style I
agreed to meet him for a date, because you can only really judge a person
properly when you're sat across a table for them. So, two weeks later we
arranged to meet on a Monday in a pub in Soho. And this is where is all
began...
At the silent disco
Monday
afternoon rolled around, and an hour before we were due to meet, he texted to
cancel on the grounds that he had had a disclosure at school. One of his pupils
had told him that she was being abused by her father, and he had spent the
afternoon involved with the police and social services. All in all, that sounds
like a pretty rubbish day at work, so we decided to reschedule for Thursday
that week.
Later that week I went to meet him, and we had even spoken an hour beforehand to arrange the venue, but he
never turned up. I was not just furious but utterly embarrassed that I’d got it
so wrong. A couple of days later I heard from him out of the blue. It emerged
that he had snapped a cruciate ligament during football training and had ended
up in hospital. Wow, this boy really is unlucky I thought.
The following
week we started speaking on the phone. He would text me throughout the day and
ring me every night. He would send me photos of himself, some doing kooky
things, some of him on holiday, a couple of him lying in bed. He obviously
wanted me to fancy him, and as you can tell from the photos, he's rather lovely
on the eye. I was going to turn a blind eye to the borderline narcissism until
I'd at least met the bugger. We'd chat for hours at a time, getting to know
each other, finding common ground, taking the piss, developing our own in jokes
and getting all the more closer.
A spider diagram Seb sent to me. Red felt-tip pen. Of course...
I won't lie,
I was starting, in part, to fall for him. He had a story for everything, which
with the benefit of my retrospectrometer bears all the hallmarks of a
pathological fantasist. But for every sweet comment, funny photo, sensitive
anecdote there was always a little question mark and yet another subtle little
attempt to get me to give him a little sleazy titillation.
Over the space of about 2 weeks, I must've spent over 20 hours
talking to this man. He told me about the death of his ex girlfriend Laura, his
best friend 'Phillip' who was brain-damaged, an alleged affair he had with a popular
daytime television presenter, the practical jokes played between him and his
brother (including bricking up the front door and inviting a tramp round for
Christmas lunch), I felt I knew everything about this man. And in return he
knew about my job, my hobbies, my previous relationships, and I’m ashamed to
say some skeletons in my closet. And looking back over our conversations now,
for every hour on the phone, there was always one little seedy undertone. I can
remember him casually slipping things like bra size, anal sex, contraception
and even menstrual cycles into conversation. But because they were all
anecdotal, or heavily embedded in the in jokes or the sensitive side of things,
the alarm bells tinkled a little, but it was nothing I felt I couldn't handle.
These are topics that come up with friends, and after all this time, we were
becoming friends, friends under a sort of pressure cooker intensity. But every
time he tried to eek out something personal from me, my bra size, my views on
contraception, my personal cycle, I would bat them away out of the park and
he'd be left with nothing. Reading this back now, I feel sick to my
stomach. With the benefit of hindsight, I can see now that all this
investment in me was for those tiny little seedy snippets.
But by now I
still wanted to meet the man behind the smooth Welsh tones. I needed to check
that Seb in real life was who I thought he was, and any such salaciousness
could be spotted in person, and nipped in the bud. By this time my curiosity
had already got the better of me, and I'd tried to find him online. But to pour
fuel to my already-increasing suspicions, I could find no trace of him. Not
even using journalistic tools used to verify identities. And I am, if I do say
my self, pretty fucking good at finding people online. Everyone's on there
somewhere, whether it'd for an old school photo, a Just Giving donation, or a
vox pop in the local press. But nevertheless, we arranged to meet on the
following Friday night and I was determined to get the the bottom of this.
However, come Friday afternoon, he cancelled again, this time with the best
reason yet: his brother Josh, a policeman, had been having an affair with a
colleague's wife. The colleague then found out, a fight broke out, the
colleague winds up in hospital and the brother ends up in custody. Oh, and her
baby might well have been his brother's. So Seb goes home to look after his
devastated family, and once again I'm left high and dry and wondering what sort
of a dramatic life this guy has.
By this point
I am still hearing daily warning bells like tinnitus, but to honour my blog,
and because I was gradually being more and more charmed by this man in a
shameful way, I was determined to meet him to find out once and for all what
was going on.
Then, out of
the blue on Tuesday, came some rather sinister messages one night from a
strange number. The conversation went as follows:
07507 ***
***: New number peeps (20.32)
Me: Who is this?
x (20.42)
07507 ***
***: You were great xx (21.01)
Me: Who is
this??? x (21.12)
07507 ***
***: You know (21.24)
CTS: No I
don't...this is your new number (21.43)
07507 ***
***: I hear you are seeing somebody (21.51)
Me: Who is
this? (21.52)
07507 *** ***:You
fukin no who. Lets start where we left off xx (22.47)
Me: No I have
no idea who you are. You either tell me who this is or stop messaging (23.04)
07507 ***
***:Don't mess with me Claire. Played hard to get b4 (23.08)
Me: Who is
this? (23.08)
07507 ***
***:You know who so let us stop f***ing around with the other geezer (23.10)
Me: No I do
not know who this is. I don't have your number and I have no idea what you are
talking about. Leave me alone. (23.10)
07507 ***
***:I will find out who he is. If I can't have youre nor can he (23.12)
Me: Who the
f*** are you? (23.13)
07507 ***
***:Small the world but it pays to be street wise (23.14)
Me: Tell me
who the f*** you are and how you have my number or I'm going to the police
(23.17)
At no point
had I ever told anyone I was 'seeing' someone, because I’d been single for 8
years by this point, and my first instinct was that Seb had bought another
phone to try and frighten me. This was all very wrong. During these messages,
Seb called me and caught me in some distress that these messages, and the first
thing I did was to check that it wasn't him. I just knew he had something to do
with it. I just knew. He was mortified at the accusation, denied it fervently,
and then offered to help by sending the number to his brother-in-law, another
policeman on duty. He also queried whether this could be one of my skeletons
come back to get me, something I knew was an impossible option. But then he
offered to send a cab to collect me and I could stay in his spare room if I was
frightened. Ding-a-ling-a-fucking-ling. Not on your life sunshine. I tried
calling the strange number back and it rang and rang but no answer and no
voicemail. The next day I tried the same and the phone was off. This bore all
the markings of a PAYG phone, and one I suspected had been bought for purpose.
And the more I thought about it, I suspected he had used something I told him
in trust to scare me, and then he could sweep in and look after me.
The next few
days were pretty horrific, he was still calling and messaging, one minute
offering to look after me and the other expressing such horror that I was still
questioning who he was. I knew I had to find out the answer to draw a line
under everything. Everything I knew about him was just so intangible, nothing I
could use to verify his identity. I was driving myself mad. Here was this
handsome man who had been increasingly adoring of me, and yet the alarms were
still clanging all over the shop. So today I finally asked where he worked. If
he had nothing to hide, he would have told me. But because of these messages
that had apparently spooked him too, he refused. This cemented my thoughts that
he was to blame for the strange messages and that he wasn't who he said he was.
I confronted him, and I said he either had to give me some proof of who he was
or to leave me alone. I mentioned all of the failed date attempts, all at his
behest, and said he had no intention of ever meeting me. The photo I then
received told me everything I needed to know.
Why on earth would
you buy someone some expensive perfume when you have never met them? Why? But
even more bizarrely, look at the reflection in the bottle. Just look. That, my
friends, is not the tall, dark, handsome Welsh stranger that had been messaging
and calling me constantly for a month. Oh no. That is a total stranger. I have
been joking all along about the film Catfish, and it turns out I have just been
living it myself. I confronted Seb straight away only to be told I was being
paranoid, and then I got a number of messages telling me what a fuck up I was,
how I was wrong in the head and how he wished he'd never messaged me. His
change of tone confirmed everything I needed to know. I now have more than
enough reason to believe I had been being groomed all along. I won't lie, when
I thought I was potentially fucking up something with someone I loved the sound
of, I felt terrible. But now, I feel relieved. I am trying not to dwell over
the hours of chats we have had over the last few weeks because I do feel
incredibly violated, despite my constant vigilance of holding things back. I
hate that I have given so much of myself to someone who, if we're being honest,
I did have some reservations about from the very start before he started to win
me over. Late that night he texted me telling me how he was falling in love with me,
trying to get me back into open conversation. I told him to leave me alone or I
would contact the police. I never heard from him again.
I reported
the incident to the police, but since Seb had not harmed me, threatened me nor
defrauded me of money, there was no crime. The most they could tell me was that
someone with a ‘similar name’ had been reported for something similar a year
before, but it wasn’t followed up. The only thing there was to go on were the
threatening messages which could be seen as harassment.
Fast forward a week after posting my blog and the first of many revelations happened.
C's story
C was
catapaulted into the Seb saga by utter fluke. After spattering my blog all over
social networking sites in an attempt to get some answers about who or what Seb
was, I was utterly astonished at some outstanding detective work amongst my
Facebook friends. One of them recognised the background of the silent disco
photo as being in Milton Keynes shopping centre. After posting this observation
on my wall, within hours both her and another friend had managed to locate the
man in the photos and had sent me links to his profile. His surname was exactly the same as one of the key names in Seb's web of lies. Unbefuckinglievable.
On Sunday morning I wrote perhaps one of the strangest emails that
he will have ever received. 'Hello, you don't know me, but I feel like I know
you. Don't freak out now, but have a little read of my blog...' Would he reply?
I know I would...but this is just too fucking weird right? Right! Sunday night,
as if by magic, C got back in touch, and I can safely say he was as totally
shocked by what was going on as I was. It turns out that many of the details I
had been told, personal details, about his life, likes, loves had been lifted
straight from his life. Other details had come from elsewhere. But in any case
that, and the fact that I had been sent around 80 photos documenting his life
over the last few years, was enough to freak him right out. Every single picture of Seb I'd been sent were actually of C. So where now?
I'd been duped by some sort of pathological liar, and C had had his life stolen.
I then went
about sending C every photo I had been sent from 'Sebastian' in an attempt
to piece together how he could have acquired all these pictures. I sent him as
much of a dossier as I could, including the last few digits of his phone
numbers in case C could identify it as maybe one of his so-called friends
who would have had access to all these pictures. But what we then found out
made us both feel physically sick. C emailed me back with Sebastian's exact
telephone number, and said it belonged to a woman who called herself Amy, whom he had
been messaging back in 2008 through Plenty of Fish. He had never spoken to her
over the phone only text, but like Seb, she'd cancelled meetings on a number of
occasions. It turns out we had both been speaking to the same person.
'Amy' as sent to C, which we've since traced to having come from a MILF site
C’s ex
girlfriend used to work in A&E, as Seb’s ex Laura had, but unlike Laura she
was still very much alive and well. C also collected vintage Cortinas and
restored them, which had become part of Seb’s story with me. He had also done a to do something new every day for a year. He had a group devoted
to this on Facebook, and nearly every single photo Seb had sent me had been
lifted from this group. Seb had a different picture to back up every anecdote
he had to spin me.
Randomly Amy had
got in touch with C out of the blue by text on that same telephone number
in early 2011 asking for photos of buttonfly jeans because he knew that C used to work for Levis. In the spider diagram Seb had sent me, he’d put
buttonfly jeans as one of the things he liked.
The phone
number both C and I had for Seb / 'Amy' was 0770* *** 114. They may
have also used a phone with the number 0750* *** 375, the number used to
send me threatening messages.
Between the two of us, we had C removed from Smooch, updated the police, and that we thought was that. Until two months later...
D’s
story
On 25th July 2011 I had a message on Twitter that made
my blood run cold. I had a message from a girl telling me she was the latest
‘idiot’. I messaged her privately to find out what was going on, and it turned
out that Seb’s latest victim, the girl he moved onto after me had been shown my
blog by her mother, who had grown suspicious that her daughter was falling for
a man she’d never met. Understandably she was distraught, and that day cut off
all ties with him. After she’d calmed down we messaged at length to try and
establish what we both knew about him. As it turns out he’d spun almost an
identical web of lies for her.
Over the
course of just 2 weeks, D and Seb had spoken on the phone for over 60
hours. He was totally sucking her in. According to her, he was also 35 years
old, born on 19th April, lived in a gated property in Marylebone
where everything was painted black and which apart from the lounge which his
mum had painted lime green and brown. He’d recently lost his grandfather, and
his sister Amy (37) a sonographer was married to a policeman called Gary and
they had a child together, Tilly. He also had a best friend called Steve, who
Seb described as ‘short, ginger and rich’ who was marrying a girl in August who
was only after him for his money. Seb was due to be the best man, the stag do
was on July 15th and they’d gone paint-balling and playing golf.
Both and I had had the same photo backing up Seb’s paint-balling
story, one lifted from C's collection.
When D started talking about Seb’s ex Laura, again the
same story had rung true. They’d met on a train from Bristol to London, chatted
the whole way, had gone for lunch once they arrived and the rest was history.
Seb had been teaching in the Bristol area (where he’d had an affair with his
headmistress), but relocated to London only six weeks later to be with Laura.
She spoke
in detail about his relationship with Laura. They had a turbulent relationship,
but they always ended up back together. The last 2 years they spent together,
she had been ill and wanted to have a baby and get married before she died, but
he didn’t want to be left bringing up a child on his own. At Christmas 2010
after she’d died, he’d had to get his Mum to tell her parents he couldn’t cope
with having contact any more. When Laura had died, he’d taken his vintage
Cortina (which he won as a bet when he was 18) and drove all the way to Cortina
in Italy to get away. As it turns out, C collected and restored old cars, including Cortinas.
D also knew the same information about Seb’s family. His
father, Benjamin, was originally from Yorkshire and his mum Trish was
from Tenby. She’d worked in a hotel, and one night Benjamin and
his friends stayed out late so she’d locked them out. Eventually she let him
in, and they chatted all through the night. Later, he tracked her down, and
they got married and had been together 45 years. Both are also teachers.
Seb’s grandparents were also from Tenby, and were very wealthy. It
was Seb’s grandfather Harry that had died. He had a box at Swansea City
football club which would always stay in the family. Seb would always take 'Phillip' to go and watch from there.
D knew a lot about 'Phillip' too. 'Phillip' was 7 years older than
Seb, and they had met at school. 'Phillip' had been left disabled and brain-damaged
as a child. 'Phillip's mum was an alcoholic and had abused him, so he was taken
away and put in a home in Milton Keynes. Seb would visit him in Milton Keynes,
saw how sad he was to be there, so brought him back to Wales. As it turns out,
C is from Milton Keynes.
The things D knew Seb loved were Wales, Tenby. Swansea
City (he’d ring her up drunk singing Swansea City songs, as he’d done with me),
Cortinas, cricket, squash, running, taking photos and art. His best friends
were Steve, Lucy and 'Phillip'. They’d also play Scrabble a lot, with his username
Sebbie 76. D had met him through Smooch, but she’d also found him on OK
Cupid.
After finding my blog, she never spoke to or heard from him again. We both thought that was that, and we'd never hear about Sebastian Pritchard-Jones ever again.
Fast forward seven months...
M’s
story
M got in touch with me through the blog on 27th of
February this year. She’d also met Seb through Smooch under the same username
Soujourn. The couple had been texting and then speaking from April 2011 until
June 2011, just before he moved onto me. Once again the same stories rang true
– his ex Laura had died, his sister Amy was a sonographer, he had a brother
called Gareth who was a policeman having an affair (almost the same as Josh in
my case), his niece Tilly was ill in hospital and his best friend was 'Phillip' who
she’d actually spoken to over the phone.
As part of their routine, they’d have ‘cuddle time’ in bed over
the phone, and she said he’d asked her some of the personal questions he’d
asked me which had been met with the same distain. When Seb had got in touch,
M had been going through a terrible time nearly losing her mother and she
was in a very vulnerable place. Within 4 days of them first messaging he knew
about her mum and kept asking more and more questions. He totally got into her
head, posing as a knight in shining armour. He’d even tried the ‘get in a cab
and I’ll look after you’ line with her which of course she didn’t act upon.
After he stood her up the first time, because Tilly had split her
head open and had to go to hospital, he sent a bouquet of 12 red roses to her
former workplace which she thought was a very over-the-top gesture. The second
time they were due to meet, Seb had texted her half an hour beforehand to
confirm details, then told her about Laura and cancelled because he was getting
‘freaked out’ about how things were moving on. Later she had drunken phone calls
and text saying he’d made a big mistake, but M called everything off. A few
weeks later, Seb got back in touch, and M questioned who he really was and
if he had lied. He denied everything, and it all started again.
After standing her up for the second time, M set up a bogus
profile on Smooch looking for ‘no strings fun’. She checked out Seb’s profile
and they started messaging. She sent him her housemate’s phone number, and was
shocked to discover he was sending her very explicit and ‘out of character’
messages. She gave him a fake address, they arranged to ‘meet’, and of course
he never turned up, because apparently he had fallen asleep. The next night, he
texted again saying he was in Soho and wanted to meet up, and kept calling and
calling the phone. Her housemate panicked and didn’t answer, at which point he
turned nasty and accused her of being ‘one of his crazy exes’.
M last arranged to meet Seb on 11th June 2012, knowing
full well he would never turn up. He didn’t, and they never spoke again.
In total they had been on contact for 7 weeks, with a 2 week break
after he stood her up for a second time. When M and I compared dates, Seb
last stood M up 8 days before my first date with Seb, so he had already
been lining me up at the end of their ‘relationship’.
This was someone clearly planning the whole duping and grooming process knowing full well that sooner or later his victim's would tire of his psychotic bullshit.
So there we go, three victims and the owner of a stolen identity found, all thanks to some stupid blog piece I wrote bitterly after being stood up. This thing was getting bigger, and weirder. But as I was soon to find out, the three of us had got off lightly....
Rachel’s
story
Rachel got
in touch with me on 19th June 2012. She had been sucked in by Seb
for 9 months during 2010. But this Seb had a different face
***photo since removed after tracking down the original subject***
Once I started to speak to Rachel, the same stories
started to come out, but there were some key differences. She had met him
through Smooch, but he had gone by the user name Agonal, a medical reference
which as a senior ward sister she recognised. He also had different photos,
even though the rest of the key information was the same. She later saw him on
the same site, but he’d changed his username to Soujourn and his photos had
changed. He tried to justify his new wearing of glasses by saying his mum
persuaded him to get an eye test, but he was too vain to get glasses. The
glasses later became part of his spiel to both D and I, the boy with
the ‘disabled eyes’.
She knew Seb was a ‘good Catholic boy’, who taught at a Catholic
school and who had been recently promoted to Deputy Head, and bragged about
having his name on a plaque on the door, despite not being able to provide
photographic evidence. They would also play Scrabble, and he’d send her
pictures of chocolate Scrabble letters spelling out messages of love.
Rachel, herself a nurse,
had been spun the same lies about Seb’s dead ex, although in her version
of events the ex was called Ali. She knew about his niece, Tilly, who had been
born to Amy on 1st September 2010. He had even rung her from the
hospital to tell her the news. Seb would send her many pictures to back up his
anecdotes, as well as pictures of his dinners, and later on, also some sexually
explicit ones. Rachel had the same number for Seb as the rest of us, but also had a phone number for his sister Amy, 0785* *** 612.
Their first date was cancelled because his grandfather, known
affectionately as ‘the War Hero’, had been taken to hospital, and he later
died. Another date was cancelled because Seb had to return to Bristol to
testify in a child abuse case from a disclosure at his former school. He had called Rachel from the hotel on his
lunch breaks to tell her about the case. The excuses for not meeting just kept
on coming, a flooding at his parents property (and having to rescue the
disabled tenant), his sister having a baby, problems with Josh and his wife,
and counselling sessions to get over his ex.
As she grew increasingly suspicious about these cancellations she
tried to find evidence these events took place – no court records of a child
abuse case in the Bristol area, no obituary or record of a funeral for his
grandfather in Tenby, nothing at all.
Rachel and Seb had a break from October 2010 – December 2010 after
Seb manufactured a mammoth falling out. When he tried to patch things up with
her, he slipped up by calling his dead ex Laura and not Ali, which Rachel
picked up on. In previous stories he’d told Rachel, Laura had been another ex,
a radiographer, who had cheated on him. Rachel and Seb were then
‘together’ until June 2011.
Rachel says Seb controlled her life for 9 months. During this time
he fluctuated wildly between being loving and affectionate to aggressive and
suspicious. He claimed to have bought
her perfumes, flowers and other gifts which never emerged. He accused her of
cheating, and tried to frighten her by saying that his policeman brother Josh had run a
search on her to find out about her infidelities. It's enough to scare the shit out of anyone. It is emotional abuse. And this is the sickest, lowest thing Seb had done to date...
Then only 2 months ago a fifth victim of Sebastian Pritchard-Jones got in contact.
Ali’s
story
Yes, Ali - the name of Seb's dead ex in his version of events with Rachel. Ali got in touch with me on 14th September 2012 after
Seb had tried getting back in touch with her via Skype. They had been in a
relationship from January 2010 until November 2010. Ali had been so destroyed by Seb, she moved abroad and had to seek counselling as a result. And her Seb, once again, looked totally different, but the backstory was the same.
***photo since removed after tracking down the original subject***
Ali had
met Seb through Guardian Soulmates, under the username SebPJ in January 2010.
Once again, the key information was almost identical, sister was
Amy who had a daughter called Tilly. He had an older brother called
Gary who was a policeman, both his parents were teachers and his mum was called
Patricia. He grew up in Tenby, his birthday was April 18th and his
friend Steve (Lewis?) was a dentist. His best friend 'Phillip' was disabled. Seb also claimed to have a medical condition called Addison’s Disease.
The first
time Ali was due to meet Seb, he broke his leg whilst playing at a charity
football match. As with the rest of his other victims, they would text all day
and speak for hours every night. Three weeks later, they were due to meet, but
Ali discovered he had given her a false address. He turned his phone off for 3
days and then called her back drunk in tears about his dead wife Laura (not
girlfriend). By this point, Ali was smitten, they’d speak until midnight every
night, and would sleep with their phones by their pillows as if they were
sleeping in the same bed. On Saturdays, they had a routine of picking horses
together and placing bets. She also knew about the 4 bedroom house in
Marylebone, the art classes, the photography, and the inheritance. They also
spoke about the future, and he called her the Future Mrs Pritchard-Jones. She
knew him to live off Boswell Street / Balcombe Street, he was a member of 5
Cavendish Square and Wentworth Golf Club.
Whilst they were together, Seb had ongoing issues related to his
ex Laura, and Ali said she’d stand by him through therapy. Laura had apparently
told Seb she never wanted him to have another woman.
Seb would frequently send Ali gifts, cash with a hand-written note
and flowers. He also claimed to have bought her jewellery and clothes, but they
never materialised. He also paid for taxis to take her to places, and claimed
to have added her to his bank account, although once again that never
materialised. Once he transferred a sum of money to her, but the money came
from an account under the name of Amy in April 2010. Seb said he’d had fraud committed on his
account, so he’d had to use his sister’s. Then after sending her the
gifts, if Ali didn’t appear grateful
enough he’d call her selfish and ungrateful, yet another way to exert power
over her.
After 4 months of his supposed therapy, they were due to meet up.
His family were away in Jamaica at the time, but because of his broken leg, Seb
couldn’t go. The family were stuck out there due to the volcanic ash debacle,
so when they final returned, Ali and Seb were meant to go and meet his parents
together. She woke up at 5am to go to the airport, tried to ring him but his
phone was off and she was heart-broken. He didn’t contact her for 2 weeks, and
when he did it was to accuse her of being unfaithful and claiming he had proof.
By this time, May 2010, things had got back on track, but Ali knew she was
never going to meet him.
In June 2010, behind Seb’s back, Ali decided to move to Sydney for
good to get away from him. In July 2010, Ali ran the London 10k race, and Seb
frightened her by saying he’d seen her there.
Throughout their relationship, Seb was very controlling and
jealous. He stopped Ali going out, would tell her he didn’t like the clothes
she was wearing and would punish her by putting her in the ‘naughty corner’. He
also said he would killer her if anyone else had her.
Ali left
for Sydney on 9th November 2010. 45 minutes before she boarded the
plane, Seb rang her to give her one last chance to tell him the truth about
cheating on him, because he claimed he had her followed and had photographic
evidence. She had been on a date in the latter months, and there was something
about the way he phrased it made her
think he really did know.
Once Ali was in Sydney, she had very little contact with Seb. He
said he’d booked a ticket to go out to Australia to ‘get her’, but of course he
never turned up.
So there you have it - Sebastian Pritchard-Jones has worked his sick fucking magic on at least six innocent people. Of course, it won't end there. And it hasn't.
UPDATE
Ali got in touch with me because totally out of the blue, because Seb had got back in contact via Skype trying to wheedle his way back into her life. He'd threatened to go to Australia to find her, but was trying to make her jealous by telling her about the new love of his life, Liz, who by all accounts is either yet another one of his victims or, most probably, is a figment of his fucked up imagination. He sent her pictures of himself allegedly with his new girlfriend Liz. Yet more stolen photos of unsuspecting people.
Since Ali got in touch, her Rachel and I have been emailing regularly, sharing all the photos and information we have to try and find out more about who the hell this 'thing' is. Ali also has a massive dossier of photos illustrating all of Seb's alleged family and friends.
Interestingly in one of Ali's photographs she spotted that not one but both of their Seb's were in the same photo. These guys were obviously friends.
***photo since removed after tracking down the original subject***
Ali has a number of group shots featuring her Seb, and we need to find out who this guy is as there's no way he can know that one of his 'friends' is using his image, personal parts of his own life to groom and abuse women.
Another really major area of concern with me is that of 'Phillip'. This is obviously a very poorly man whose photos are being callously used to curry sympathy for someone for the vilest reasons possible. We have accumulated a number of photos of 'Phillip' that Seb has been sending around various women and it's not right. The person behind this sickery must have contact or access to him, and his family and carers need to know about it. It chills me to the bone that someone is using someone like this for such ill means, but unfortunately this is the only way I can let people know about it.
So there you go, Sebastian Pritchard-Jones strikes again. Someone out there must recognise people in these pictures. Someone out there must have heard these stories before. I always had my reservations that the internet harboured a whole load of weird, and this is one pretty bloody good example. This creature is stealing lives, weaving lies and doing a whole lot of emotional harm. But who's to say he'll stop there? Please help us find him. Email this article to everyone you know, tweet it, slap it all over your Facebook and help us stop this mind-fuckery before more people get hurt.
And if you have heard any of these stories before, if you've been a victim of this serial nutjob or know anyone in any of these pictures, please please email me. I don't believe for one minute any of these innocent people shown in these pictures know about or would ever consent to them being used in the manner with which they are, and I want to do everything I can to stop any more people getting hurt by what appears to be a very sick and very sad individual.
Until next time readers...and mark my words, there will be a next time...
