Sussex stable hand who stalked girl he was obsessed by faces jail

‘Manipulative and corrosive’ Beaumont Bricka bombarded love interest Eve Taylor with ‘appalling’ messages from fake accounts telling her to kill herself as part of his ‘twisted’ online campaign.

The infatuated 26-year-old framed the makeup artist’s innocent boyfriend Tim Dobson so it appeared as if he was the stalker, getting him arrested and leaving him on the brink of suicide.

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‘Lonely’ Bricka, who travels across the globe for international showjumping events, sent himself death threats from the fake accounts to make himself look like a victim to Miss Taylor and she grew ‘close’ to him.

Nine other people connected to 24-year-old Miss Taylor were targeted - including her father Dr Tim Taylor, an NHS trust's medical director who Bricka wrongly claimed was a paedophile.

When ‘quiet’ Bricka was finally caught by detectives at home in the West Sussex countryside, his horse-owning mother Tonia Bricka stepped forward to claim she was in fact the stalker.

However Portsmouth Crown Court was told it was just a failed bid by the 63-year-old to shoulder the blame for her son.

Now, the pair of them face jail after Bricka was convicted of eight counts of stalking, two counts of sending malicious communications, and perverting the course of justice, and his mother was convicted of perverting the course of justice.

Remanding the pair in custody, Judge Richard Shepherd told Beaumont Bricka he is an ‘intelligent, manipulative and corrosive liar’.

Bricka, who lives with his mum in a £530,000 cottage in the village of Aldingbourne met Miss Taylor at the stables by his home and carried out his 'twisted' year-long campaign from 2019 to 2020.

Their families were friendly and sometimes rode horses together, with Mrs Bricka and Miss Taylor's mother Julie Taylor commenting that they would make a nice couple.

Bricka made multiple fake accounts with girls names on Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and WhatsApp, set up at least 34 different phone numbers and six email addresses, and used three mobile phones.

Using the accounts, he contacted Miss Taylor and her family and friends to wrongly claim her plumber boyfriend Mr Dobson was cheating on her, telling her ‘can you leave my boyfriend alone you ugly little freak’.

Bricka also spread lies about her, claiming she has sexually transmitted diseases, posting adverts claiming she is an escort, and branding her a ‘cheating witch’.

Her dad Dr Taylor even found himself being investigated by Sussex NHS Trust when Bricka made a false complaint he inappropriately messaged an 11-year-old girl.

Miss Taylor became increasingly worried Mr Dobson was behind the campaign and they broke up before Mr Dobson was arrested and ‘contemplated suicide’.

‘Chilling’ photos of suicides, nooses and bloody knives were sent by Bricka to Miss Taylor and himself, encouraging them to kill themselves.

Miss Taylor said she unwittingly grew closer to Bricka and sent him over 3,000 texts, feeling ‘incredibly guilty’ that he was getting death threats and worried that it was ‘her fault’.

Bricka even went to the extent of visiting his doctor to be prescribed anti-depressants and spoke to a private investigator that the Taylors hired.

Tearful Miss Taylor told jurors ‘I was scared’ as she recalled being relentlessly stalked.

She said: ‘I was devastated, a complete mess. I felt really disturbed and stressed and guilty... It was horrible, the messages made me feel dirty.

‘I was really worried, it felt threatening and felt directed at Beau, who at the time I felt concerned for.

‘We definitely got closer as this was happening as he was receiving messages as well. He was just a friend, I felt incredibly guilty and worried that he was getting death threats and it was my fault.’

Miss Taylor said the stalking stopped her going out, running, doing yoga, and that the stress destroyed her singing voice due to the impact it had on her muscles.

‘It still affects me every day,’ the self-employed makeup artist said.

Her mother Mrs Taylor said: ‘Every morning you would wake up to 20 WhatsApp messages and one would be an advert that had been put into the local newspaper showing Eve as an escort.

‘There became a time where you could not sleep as the phone would go off all the time. I had to watch my daughter deteriorate, have panic attacks, become depressed.’

Dr Taylor, medical director at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, told jurors he was banned from meetings and seeing patients after false allegations were made against him.

Mr Dobson said: ‘Somebody, the stalker, was seriously trying to incriminate me and trying to get me locked up.

‘This has been the worst period of my life, it was so dire I was suspected of being the stalker and arrested.

‘At times over the last year I have felt suicidal and contemplated taking my own life.

‘I started drinking heavily. I wanted to drink to forget the situation I was in.‘I had a bottle of whiskey and pills, had gone to a favourite place of mine and was prepared to take my own life.

‘I felt like I had nothing to live for and my mind was wanting this to end.’

Bricka was arrested in April 2020 after police spotted him on CCTV topping up one of the pay-as-you-go phones used to send messages.

An iPhone 6, an Alcatel phone, his own iPhone 8, phone chargers, and paper with victims’ phone numbers was recovered at the house.

Giving evidence, Bricka said he had a ‘lonely’ upbringing and didn't have many friends, but claimed he was ‘shocked and horrified’ by the stalking as he denied being behind it.

Mrs Bricka insisted she was the stalker, claiming she was ‘addicted to it’, but it was heard her claims were ‘vague’ and ‘nonsense’.

The pair will be sentenced in May.