Facebook friend request gets UK man arrested

Published on October 4, 2007 by Trench Reynolds in Criminals. 4 Comments Tags: , , .

Man jailed over Facebook message:
Some poor shlub from the UK had the UK version of a restraining order put against him by his estranged wife.

Dylan Osborn, 37, had been ordered by magistrates not to contact his wife Claire Tarbox, after he harassed her with phonecalls and text messages.

Ok so I’m not feeling too sorry for him.

Anyway, when he signed up for a Facebook account Facebook allegedly sent automatic friend requests to everyone in his address book including his wife. It’s been a while since I signed up for Facebook. Does it really do this?

Since he made contact with his wife, inadvertent or not, he was ordered to spend 10 days in jail.

Ah the wonders of technology in the hands of people who don’t understand it.

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  • http://N/A Cricket

    This really sucks–wonder how many other poor saps will get jail time for this, and YES, it really does do that [as well as OTHER sites too] but you can change the settings IF you know what you're doing and obviously he did not *sigh*

  • BW

    I'm pretty sure when I signed up (which was actually recently) that it showed me the list of people from my address book and let me select/deselect any of them before it sent the requests. So like many people he probably just clicked things without thinking about it.

  • Sanna

    It said in the newspaper that she felt that he was harassing her when he sent text messages like "please don't sleep with others"
    I guess he sent quite alot of sms *lol*
    so she must have been pretty pissed off when she found an email friend request from him. Should I laugh or feel sorry? ^^

  • Hannah

    sorry, but from what i see in the newspapers, she sounds like a real bitch. and the justice system does too. gl for him.