GPS Trackers on Stalkers? Japan’s Ruling Party Pushes Solution to Rising Problem

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GPS Trackers on Stalkers? Japan's Ruling Party Pushes Solution to Rising Problem - Unseen Japan

Japan may soon fit stalkers with GPS ankle monitoring devices that would alert their victims when the offender draws near.

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Thomas Seeberg Torjussen – „Toxic Tom“ (Serie, 2025)

Dieser norwegische Vierteiler ist wirklich ein ziemlich gewagter Stunt. Schon auf dem Papier liest sich das so riskant, dass ich fast gar nicht glauben wollte, dass so etwas funktionieren kann. Ein Mann, der tagsüber in der Boutique seiner Mutter (ausgerechnet) Damenkleider (ausgerechnet) verkauft und nachts im Netz Frauen trollt, muss vor seiner eigenen toxischen Wut fliehen und die Welt aus der Sicht der Frauen erleben, die er zuvor bedroht hat. Das @ZDF traut sich was… gut so! (ZDFneo, Wh.)

Zum Blog: https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/thomas-seeberg-torjussen-toxic-tom-serie-2025/

What the Flock camera ecosystem provides is neither safety nor security, but surveillance and stalking.

#Flock #cameras #Surveillance #Stalking

I shouldn't laugh, but the entitlement of boys who feel entitled to my time is like... equal parts scary and funny. Like okay, honestly I'm here to have fun, talk to ppl I like, promote witchy things, and tbh rant about injustices that ick me. I shouldn't have to worry abt boys spending legit days being creeps bc I chose to block, or mute, unfollow, or just fking ignore them.

I'm a petty bitch, facts. I blocked some guy once bc he was mean to a video game character and I was in a mood. I've muted ppl for spoiling old asf movies. I unfollowed someone bc they said stuffs I agreed with in a way I found annoying. If me being petty is a prob? Block me, unfollow me, lose my fking name, forget I exist. I'm not pressed.

But kindly fk off with the creepy, cowardly, stalky behavior. It's gross. Ppl like u why I carry a knife IRL. Why I sometimes think abt carrying more. BC it's scary to think that ignoring the wrong boy might mean getting attacked when I'm just trying to live my life.

Fedi feels safer than other places, mostly, but if u think u aren't scaring women w ur behavior... ur wrong.

Edit: I'm aware that intimidation and fear is kind of the point, yesh.

#PSA #Stalking #NotAllMen #Assault

En wederom wordt getracht de schuld bij het slachtoffer te leggen. 'hij wilde alleen maar met haar praten'

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#stalking #femicide

Stalker opent het vuur in Zeeman Confronteert: 'Hij haalde meteen de trekker over'

Thijs Zeeman heeft woensdagavond de ‘heftigste aflevering ooit’ van <i>Zeeman Confronteert </i>uitgezonden. Daarin was te zien hoe de stalker van Jamie-Lee na een zenuwslopende achtervolging het vuur opende. „Hij haalde meteen de trekker over.”

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📰 Stalker opent vuur in Zeeman Confronteert: 'Hij haalde meteen de trekker over'

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🔸 #Stalking #Romantiek #Huwelijk #Bloemen #Nachtmerrie

MORRISTON: Stalker jailed after resuming campaign of terror against ex-partner within weeks of release

35-year-old Matthew Samuel, formerly of Vicarage Road, Morriston, Swansea, but now of no fixed abode, was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court after pleading guilty to stalking involving serious alarm or distress and breach of a restraining order.

The court heard Samuel has 31 previous convictions for 52 offences, among them stalking, harassment, and breaching restraining orders relating to two earlier former partners.

His past behaviour included threatening to pour petrol through one ex-partner’s letterbox and to “chop her up and burn her alive,” whilst on a separate occasion, Samuel poured petrol over the driveway of another former partner and set it alight.

In October 2024, Samuel received an 18-month prison sentence for stalking the same woman at the centre of the latest case. On that occasion, the court heard he had made her life “a misery” through unwanted and threatening calls, texts, and visits – ringing her as many as 93 times in a single day.

Samuel had also threatened to turn up at her children’s play centre and stab himself in front of everyone, and told her he would “make sure she loses everything” by spreading rumours she was ill-treating her children.

Prosecutor Sian Cutter told the court the pair had been in a relationship for around six months before it ended due to Samuel’s jealousy.

Following his release from prison in March 2025, he “almost immediately” made contact with the woman again despite the restraining order in place. The court heard the woman initially did not object to the contact and at times had been the one to reach out to Samuel.

However, after she made clear she wanted nothing more to do with him, Samuel launched a fresh campaign of harassment. He called her from withheld numbers up to 75 times in a single day, sent a barrage of messages, contacted her on Facebook, and set up multiple TikTok accounts under different names so he could follow and message her.

Samuel also telephoned the police pretending to be the woman’s cousin to report concerns for her welfare, and attended the school her children go to while wearing a balaclava.

During the course of the stalking, Samuel made a series of threats including telling the woman he would throw a brick through her window and that he was going to murder her. In one message he told her: “You are mine. You will always be mine.”

The matter was reported to police in October and Samuel was arrested. He answered “no comment” to all questions in interview and was released on bail with a condition not to contact his ex-partner – but carried on regardless.

When the woman changed her phone, Samuel obtained her new number and resumed calling and texting from withheld numbers. In one call, he told her “there was nothing she could say or do to make him leave her alone”.

He was arrested again in January and once more gave “no comment” responses throughout his interview.

In a statement read to the court, the victim said she now struggles to sleep and feels she is constantly being “watched” whenever she leaves the house, yet does not feel safe at home either. She said she is on antidepressant medication and had been left feeling “frightened and powerless”.

David Singh, representing Samuel, said pre-sentence and psychiatric reports detailed the defendant’s “difficult background” and the impact this had on his ability to form appropriate relationships.

While those circumstances did not justify what he described as his client’s “inexcusable behaviour”, they provided context. He acknowledged Samuel had made things worse through his use of drink and drugs, and said the defendant has two young children and recognises he must change or risk losing meaningful contact with them.

Sentencing, Judge Paul Thomas KC told Samuel:

“You are an extremely jealous, very immature man who simply needs to grow up. Above that, I think you are potentially a risk to any woman who you are in a relationship with.

“The court has a duty to protect women. The only way it can do that is to keep you out of the way.”

Samuel received a three-year prison sentence for stalking and two years and three months for the restraining order breach, to run concurrently.

A one-quarter discount was applied for his guilty pleas. He will serve up to half the sentence in custody before being released on licence. The existing restraining order will remain in place until 2029.

[Lead image: South Wales Police]

#harassment #Morriston #SouthWalesPolice #stalking #SwanseaCrownCourt
To The Surprise Of No One, Cops Are Using ALPR Cameras To Stalk Their Exes

The cops never change. Only the tech toys do. That’s the upshot of this report from the Institute for Justice, which has been tracking what cops have been tracking now that they have always-o…

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📰 Shirley barst in tranen uit in Zeeman Confronteert: jarenlang gestalkt door beste vriend

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🔸 #Stalking #Dood #Daders #Onderzoek

Shirley barst in tranen uit in Zeeman Confronteert: jarenlang gestalkt door beste vriend

In de eerste aflevering van het nieuwe seizoen van 'Zeeman Confronteert' staat de 33-jarige Shirley centraal. Zij wordt al vier jaar gestalkt. De dader beschikt telkens over zeer specifieke informatie en bedreigt haar zelfs met de dood, waardoor ze zich nergens meer veilig voelt. Uit onderzoek van Thijs Zeeman (43) komt uiteindelijk naar voren dat juist de persoon die zij het meest vertrouwde achter de stalking zit.

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