Tinder ‘slut shamer’ guilty of new charges
CONVICTED Tinder “slut shamer” Zane Alchin has been convicted for calling his ex a “f***ing slut” and maliciously damaging her car.
EXCLUSIVE
A Sydney man who pleaded guilty to “slut shaming” on Tinder and posting vile comments about raping women on Facebook has been convicted on new charges, news.com.au can reveal.
Zane Alchin, 27, has pleaded guilty to calling his ex-girlfriend a “f***ing slut” near kindergarten children at a child-care centre, and maliciously damaging her car with a key.
Mr Alchin made national news in 2016 when a magistrate spared him jail over posts about raping feminists and shaming a young woman on Tinder.
In one of his comments, Mr Alchin said vile sex and violence-related comments on Facebook including: “You know the best thing about a feminist they don’t get any action so when you rape them it feels 100 times tighter”.
Among 55 offensive comments he posted was, “Do me a favour go home and slap you mother obviously your father never did it enough.”
One of his comments read: “It’s people like you who make it clear women should never have been given rights.” Another said “I’d rape you if you were better looking”.
He also targeted a young woman over her Tinder profile and described her and her friends as “***ing basic sluts”.
According to police facts, Mr Alchin was also involved early this month in a bizarre incident in which he and his ex-girlfriend were found sleeping in an open car near a child care centre.
He first came to the attention of the police this year on the afternoon of February 27 outside a preschool in the southern Sydney suburb of Kirrawee, where his ex-girlfriend was employed as a child care worker.
Police facts seen by news.com.au say Mr Alchin and a 24-year-old woman entered into an intimate relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend last August.
The 24-year-old ended the romance on February 25 this year because of Mr Alchin’s “personal abuse and manipulation”.
Two days later, he turned up at her kindergarten for a prearranged meeting to collect his pillow.
After parking his car behind hers in the car park, he met up with the 24-year-old who handed back his pillow.
When he attempted to hug her, she “rejected his advances [and] told the accused the relationship was over”.
As she walked back towards the preschool, Mr Alchin started yelling: “You’re a f***ing slut and you owe me money”.
She asked Mr Alchin to stop as her boss and young children were present, and told him she would telephone him after work.
However, she remained behind bushes near the preschool’s entrance and watched on with co-workers as Mr Alchin took “an object resembling a key in his left hand”.
Mr Alchin scratched the rear side passenger door of the girlfriend’s grey Ford Focus, the car’s rear end and a panel on the driver’s side.
He then yelled: “Are we going to get back together” before driving off.
She called the police who photographed her car and obtained images of Instagram messages between her and Mr Alchin.
Police charged him with use offensive language and destroy or damage property and he later pleaded guilty to both charges.
Police applied for a Domestic Violence Order for him not to approach, assault, harass or intimidate the woman.
On March 5, a member of the public alerted police two people were asleep in a car parked behind a child care centre in the southern Sydney suburb of Caringbah.
Around 3pm, police found Mr Alchin and the woman lying on an inflatable mattress with pillows and a doona in the rear of her vehicle.
Mr Alchin was shirtless and had his feet poking out of the car.
Police had trouble waking the pair, but eventually explained to them that “their presence was causing fear and concern to parents as they believed [the pair] were drug users”.
She told police she was to tired to drive home to her place; Mr Alchin’s residence was “just around the corner” from the preschool.
Police issued both with a “move on” caution.
Police returned to the location at 4.40pm after learning that Mr Alchin was at liberty on bail with an enforceable AVO which stipulated he was not to approach the woman.
Two days later, Mr Alchin pleaded guilty to the charges of swearing at the woman at her preschool and keying her car.
Mr Alchin avoided jail in 2016 when he was given a twelve month bond over the derogatory comments he made on social media which he later told police he had posted while drunk.
Mr Alchin’s comments about young Sydney woman Olivia Melville and others on Facebook occurred during a social media fight known as “flaming”.
During the fight a friend of Mr Alchin’s named Chris Hall had targeted Ms Melville about her Tinder profile.
The profile had quoted a lyric from Canadian rapper Drake’s song Only, “Type of girl who will suck you dry and then eat some lunch with you.”
Mr Hall posted the screenshot on his Facebook page with the caption, “Stay classy ladies. I’m surprised she’d still be hungry for lunch.”
Ms Melville’s friends shared Mr Hall’s post on their own Facebook pages and criticised him for his offensive language.
Mr Alchin commented on several of these posts calling Ms Melville and her friends “f***ing basic sluts”.
Mr Alchin was charged with using a carrier service to menace, harass, or cause offence and later pleaded guilty.
During the social media altercation, Ms Melville’s friend Paloma Brierley-Newtown told Mr Alchin, “you are actually one of the worst human beings I have ever had to converse with in my life, if you keep threatening me with rape I will go to the police, I have all this screen slotted you are currently breaking the law.”
Mr Alchin responded, “What law am I breaking? I’m not the one out of the f***ing kitchen.”
Mr Hall was later fired from his job for violating his employer’s social media policy.
Ms Melville later told the ABC the abuse campaign had left her frightened.
“I was getting all these messages from people, and that was the most frightening thing, people were just bombarding me, abusing me, and saying I was in the wrong” she said.
Police charged Mr Alchin, who initially pleaded not guilty, then changed his plea.
In July 2016, his barrister Sophie Walsh told the Downing Centre Court that Mr Alchin was the victim of online trolling.
NSW Magistrate William Pierce gave Mr Alchin a good behaviour bond and told him he did not “deserve” the online abuse he copped in return.
Mr Alchin’s online attacks inspired one of the victims to start an anti-sexism movement called Sexual Violence Won’t Be Silenced (SVWBS)
Outside the 2016 court hearing, Ms Brierley Newton, an SVWBS spokeswoman, told news.com.au she hoped the case would set a precedent.
“You should never have to feel harassed or victimised anywhere. It doesn’t matter where it is,” she said.
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