Stalker continues to stalk a woman even under house arrest

In Nizhny Novgorod, judge Evgeny Terekhov, who is considering the case of stalker and former policeman Roman Lonskov, did not tighten his preventive measure, although he continues to pursue the victim while under house arrest, NewsNN reports . A man has been stalking a woman for more than four years.

According to the publication, according to the judge, it is impossible to prove that it is Lonskov who continues to write messages to the injured woman. Messages come to her from different numbers and fake accounts on social networks.

Everyone understands perfectly well that he writes, but no one cares. I'm afraid of him, he writes these messages to me every day. If I don’t answer, he immediately creates fake pages in my name, where I allegedly sell my body and all that. I'm afraid that the matter just won't move forward, and then he'll just kill me somewhere.

victim of Roman Lonskov

Earlier, the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service reported that they had identified and documented Lonkov’s repeated violations of the conditions of house arrest and would ask the court to change the preventive measure.

For about four years, former operative Roman Lonskov has been pursuing an investigator from his own department, who refused to meet with him. He created fake accounts on her behalf, from which he wrote to her acquaintances with offers of sex services, and published posts about intimate relationships with colleagues for the sake of career advancement. This led to the dismissal of the investigator, since her superiors decided to test her herself with a polygraph, and she considered this offensive.

In addition, Lonskov cut the tires of her car, broke glass, defecated outside the woman’s apartment, where she lives with her child, and smeared feces on her door. He also once attacked the woman herself. The victim contacted the police several dozen times, but they refused to initiate a case.

The case was opened only in June 2023 - after the situation was publicized in the media. The ex-policeman is charged with intentional damage to property (Part 1 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code) and robbery (clause “d” of Part 2 of Article 161 of the Criminal Code).

Lonskov hid from the investigation, and he was detained only in November 2023. Despite this, the court did not send Lonskov to a pre-trial detention center, but assigned him one of the mildest preventive measures - a ban on certain actions: he was prohibited from leaving the house at night, communicating with the victim and her relatives, and approaching her house more than 500 meters. The higher court changed this decision and tightened the preventive measure, assigning the man house arrest. This measure includes, among other things, a ban on the use of communications and the Internet.

However, last week the victim told reporters that Lonskov continues to harass her: he writes messages to her from “leftist accounts” and again creates fake pages on social networks in her name, on which he offers intimate services. “Everything again, everything is the same. I've already complained everywhere. I called his lawyer, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the assistant judge - no one wants to do anything about it,” the woman said. After her comment, the FSIN reported that they had gone to court with a demand to change Lonskov’s preventive measure.

In the messages that the woman showed to journalists, the sender asks her to borrow money, and also writes “You won’t succeed, we will be together,” “It’s your own fault. The next step is up to me, wait,” “Everything will be different. We will be together."

Earlier, the Consortium of Women's Non-Governmental Associations reported that Ivan Matveev, convicted of stalking a Muscovite woman, continued to pursue his ex-girlfriend even after the verdict. Matveev began pursuing her back in 2020, shortly after the breakup. Among other things, he tracked her and her mother using the Apple AirTag tracker, illegally obtained data on her trips from the Ministry of Internal Affairs database, waited for her at apartments that she changed due to persecution, and in places where she went. The man also sent her death threats and attacked her new partners. The court did not deprive him of his freedom and imposed compulsory labor.