A man stalked a Babestation model after developing an “obsession” and spending £30,000 on her OnlyFans account.
Nottingham Crown Court was told how Mark Inster inundated Alice Goodwin, who is the ex-wife of former Liverpool FC footballer Jermaine Pennant, with more than 11,000 messages over a two-year period, during which he insisted they were “twin flames”.
Inster also found the Babestation model’s address and sent her flowers and cars for her birthday, Christmas and Valentine’s Day. In one message, the 43-year-old, who convinced himself he was in an actual relationship with the 38-year-old victim, said: “I could just imagine your face if (I) turned up at your doorstep”, Nottinghamshire Live reports.
Handing him a suspended sentence, Judge Philip Head said: “Over a two-and-a-half-year period you became obsessed with your victim over two platforms – OnlyFans and Babestation. You subscribed and you exchanged messages.
“These messages were highly sexual and flirtatious. She was working on a TV programme called Babestation and you were viewing her on that platform as well. You spent the simply staggering sum of £30,000 on her Only Fans account.
“She was receiving 50 messages a day. You were completely obsessed with her. She then blocked the account and you got around that by contacting her again and again with new accounts.
“You sent a Valentine’s card to her and followed that up with birthday and Christmas cards. One message said ‘like I told you, Alice, there is nothing you can do to stop me loving you because you are my twin flame.
“It is clear what you did had a massive impact on her health and her work. She had to take three months off work and suffered untold anxiety. She had to install an alarm system and update her CCTV.”
Dawn Pritchard, prosecuting, said Inkster, of Wood Street, paid money to subscribe to Miss Goodwin’s OnlyFans account and then paid extra to have private one-to-one messages and videos with her. She said between August 2021 and January 2022, he spent £30,000 on the subscriptions.
The prosecutor said: “He would contact her daily, ask her details about her private life, send her messages on her personal and private Instagram accounts, bought tickets for events she said (on social media) she would be attending.
“She talked about receiving 50 messages a day from him. He told her he was terminally ill. She tried to block him, but she estimates he set up thousands of accounts which were him.
“On February 14, 2023, he sent a Valentine’s card to her address and he also contacted her daughter on TikTok and Instagram. In May 2023, he sent messages to Babestation saying he would turn up at her address and said ‘I could just imagine your face if I turned up at your doorstep’.
“He sent her messages on Skype saying there was nothing she could do to stop him loving her and that he loved her with every fibre of his body. He said they were ‘twin flames’.”
Ms Pritchard said Inkster was arrested and gave a prepared statement in an interview saying there were “no threats” in his messages. She said Miss Goodwin, who is the ex-wife of former Notts County, Arsenal and Liverpool Premier League star Jermaine Pennant, had to install extra security and a panic alarm at her address as a result of what the defendant did to her.
In an impact statement, she said: “This has had a huge impact on me and I feel incredibly unsafe. I am considering moving away due to the trauma. He sent me 50 messages a day professing his undying love.”
Inkster pleaded guilty to staking and has no previous convictions. David Watts, mitigating, said his client got into £30,000 of debt paying for the subscriptions and is paying it back at £700 per month.
He said: “The key word is ‘obsession’. It was a most unfortunate obsession Mr Inkster developed with someone who puts herself in the public eye in a sexualised way. Unfortunately Mr Inkster in the messages demonstrates how he came to see her as being something of a soulmate.
“He has a good job with a major employer and is in a position of responsibility. It is very much to her credit that Mrs Inkster, who is present in court today, will help him to continue to receive the support he needs.”