Perth woman nicknamed ‘Aussie fawn’ sentenced to 5 years in prison

The woman nicknamed “Australia” Little deerwas sentenced to five years in prison for continuing to taunt her victims after she was found guilty of stalking.

Coby Langshaw — a 38-year-old mother of three and clerk from Perth whose constant stalking antics were reminiscent of the character of Martha (played by Jessica Gunning) on the Netflix drama inspired by real life Little deer.

On October 10, Langshaw was jailed after being found guilty of 22 counts of breaching a restraining order, two counts of aggravated stalking with intent to intimidate, and one count of stalking with intent to intimidate. connections with events that occurred in 2020.

Justice of the Peace Belinda Coleman described Langshaw’s stalking efforts as a “deliberate, ruthless and carefully calculated” campaign against two men with whom she was obsessed.

During sentencing, Judge Coleman said Langshaw met diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder or sociopathy, obsessive-compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder and narcissism. She also said she considered Langshaw “very dangerous.”

“You remain at high risk of re-offending. Not just against Herbert and Gardner, but against other members of the community,” she said.

“My review of the cases has confirmed that your conduct was extremely serious and falls within the highest category of offenses of this type.”

For eight years, Langshaw pursued the lawyer Patrick Gardner after he represented her in family court in 2015, and his best friend Aaron Herbert.

In 2016, Gardner filed a restraining order against Langshaw.

Despite this, Langshaw persisted, moving to the suburb where both men lived and appearing at local cafes and workplaces. During a previous court appearance in May, Judge Coleman ordered a lifetime ban on Langshaw from going within two kilometers of the Perth CBD, where both men work, and the suburb where they live. She was also ordered to have no further contact with her victims.

“I take everything you tell me, Miss Langshaw, with a grain of salt unless there is independent evidence. You constantly committed crimes against these people. I’m not changing the boundaries,” Judge Coleman said at the time. Australian.

Although she was facing a life ban, Langshaw broke the ban and non-violence order by loitering outside her victim’s offices and local cafes.

Langshaw also ran a TikTok account in which she used filters to make herself look younger and pretended to be a university student. She posted videos with cryptic messages, and her bio on the social media app openly mocked her victims.

“Be like a butterfly—always beautiful, but hard to catch,” it read.

The Daily Mail reported that Langshaw posted several times a day, portraying the trending sounds as a “lovesick student” from a child-themed room.

The Langshaw case was quickly compared to the popular Netflix series. Little deerwhich follows the comedian’s experiences Richard Gadd who was allegedly stalked by a woman with legal experience whom he met while working in a pub.