Stefan Paskoski sentenced at court after pleading guilty to Whittlesea Bowls Club stalking campaign

A security worker pretended to be a journalist from A Current Affair as he went on his bizarre stalking campaign against the manager of a suburban bowling club.

The former security worker (not pictured) fronted Heidelberg Magistrates Court.

A security expert pretended to be a journalist with A Current Affair and sent a barrage of explicit messages to staff at a bowling club in a bizarre quest to bring down the manager.

Yarrawonga man Stefan Paskoski fronted Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to running a stalking campaign against the manager of Whittlesea Bowls Club.

The court heard the campaign involved nine letters and multiple text messages sent between February 21 to March 3, 2022.

Stefan Paskoski

Paskoski, a former worker at Forcepoint security group, ran security services for the bowling club

He believed the bowling club’s general manager was making inappropriate comments to female employees and “having an affair” with a female staff member, the court heard.

He took matters into his own hands and devised a scheme which would see him masquerade as an A Current Affair journalist working on a story about the general manager.

Paskoski sent anonymous letters and text messages demanding the general manager quit or else threatening to leak his accusations to the media.

Stefan Paskoski pleaded guilty at the Heidelberg Magistrates' Court.

He also sent messages to staff at the bowling club which he claimed the general manager had shared with a young female employee.

These messages included statements such as “You look sexy tonight”, “I’d like to eat you up” and “Age is just a number”.

In a separate letter to bowling club employees he wrote “expect ACA to be in contact” and claimed the general manager was touching women.

He also later alleged there was “possible drug dealing at the Whittlesea Bowls Club,” the court heard.

In March 2022, Paskoski sent more letters, this time pretending to be the sponsors of the bowling club.

The matter was heard at Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court.

Police raided the security worker’s former Humevale home and lifted fingerprints off letters he had sent in April 2022.

In court, the defence lawyer described the stalking as “bizarre” and said his client saw himself as a “whistleblower”.

Paskoski, who had no criminal priors, was fined $2000.

He did not receive a criminal conviction.