Ozkan Uygun installed a listening device and sent over three hundred text messages to a person he was stalking for three months
A Mildura stalker sent more than three hundred text messages and installed a Nokia listening device inside his victim’s car.
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A Mildura man placed a listening device in a woman’s car and sent her more than three hundred threatening text messages over a three-month period, a court has heard.
Ozkan Uygun, 30, put a Nokia mobile device under the driver’s seat of the victims’ vehicle and used it to listen to private conversations
The victim approached Uygun when they discovered the device and he initially denied any knowledge of the device.
Uygun eventually relented and told the victim he had downloaded an app that allowed him to listen to their conversations and had more than 40 hours of recordings.
Things escalated further in late February when a person residing at the victim’s house was taking the bins out and found Uygun on his hands and knees, skulking around the victim’s vehicle.
Court documents say when Uygun was discovered near the victim’s vehicle, he fled and drove off in his car.
The victim reported the incident the following day, stating they “didn’t feel safe in their own home” anymore.
A search warrant was executed by Mildura police on March 5, and officers found the Nokia device in the rear pocket in the driver’s seat of Uygun’s car.
When police downloaded the contents of the device, they found two separate recordings, almost three hours long of the victim’s private conversations.
Uygun pleaded guilty to charges of stalking, using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence, and knowingly installing, using or maintain a listening device to listen to a private conversation without consent.
Magistrate Patrick Southey remarked the charges had a “disturbing, creepy element.”
He was sentenced to serve a two-year community corrections order and was sentenced to three days in prison, which were reckoned as time served.
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