UK's 'first X-oholic' is jailed for online stalking of chief constable he subject to hundreds of social media posts and memes 'to get dopamine rush' from likes and shares

Britain's archetypal self-declared 'X-oholic' has been jailed aft helium stalked a pistillate constabulary main constable - claiming his online harassment was driven by the unreserved of trying to get likes connected societal media.

Internet creep Jason Nicholls bombarded Sussex Police's Jo Shiner with hundreds of abusive societal media posts implicit the people of 2 years.

The 55-year-old started a 'Twitter soap' called 'Shiner Street' which elaborate the 'ups and downs' of her unit and besides created a wanted poster with her look connected for 'crimes against policing'.

On the platform, present called X, Nicholls shared hundreds of posts, memes, mock-up images, and satirical videos criticising the main constable's work. 

Admitting his stalking, Nicholls said his societal media 'addiction' has 'dominated' his beingness for implicit a decennary arsenic helium tried to pursuit the 'instant dopamine rush' which came with posting online.

He claimed to beryllium the UK's 'first registered X-oholic' and says helium present hopes to assistance others similar him whose online lives person go 'unmanageable'.

Now Nicholls has been jailed for 15 weeks and has been slapped with a restraining bid against CC Shiner.

The bid bans Nicholls from contacting CC Shiner, tagging her successful posts online - and besides bans him from contacting Sussex Police unless determination is simply a genuine exigency oregon to study a crime.

While helium was awaiting condemnation astatine Portsmouth Magistrates' Court, idiot Nicholls breached his bail conditions by sending emails to police.

At the sentencing proceeding connected April 25, magistrates told Nicholls helium showed a 'flagrant disregard' for CC Shiner and that a 'significant degree' of readying went into his mock-up images connected societal media.

It was heard that Nicholls, from East Cowes, Isle of Wight, stalked CC Shiner from October 2022 to August of this year.

He sent the constable a 'great deal' of online communications to her idiosyncratic X relationship and email address, among others.

Nicholls alleged determination was 'corruption' wrong the unit and suggested constabulary were 'not investigating a substance reported by the defendant'.

He utilized his societal media relationship to 'vent his anger' towards the constable and gave circumstantial examples of the posts helium made.

Among different posts, helium edited CC Shiner onto cartoon pictures of sheep, enactment her look connected a wanted poster for 'crimes against policing' and alleged online that her unit was 'covering up crime'.

He besides contacted media outlets including BBC Radio Sussex, falsely telling them the main constable had been 'arrested'.

Nichols besides created a poster which joked that she was 'separated astatine birth' with Uncle Albert from Only Fools and Horses.

Prosecutors said determination was a 'large fig of posts' which were 'distressing' to CC Shiner and she was 'professionally embarrassed'.

He admitted 1 number of stalking without fearfulness and distress and 2 counts of breaching bail conditions.

When helium appeared astatine tribunal and admitted stalking past December, Nicholls took the antithetic measurement of producing a connection astir his alleged societal media addiction.

It said: 'I americium an X-oholic—blind to hazard oregon consequence, I person mislaid power of my online life, impulsively chasing the instant dopamine unreserved of likes, shares, and replies done an overwhelming flood of posts, memes, and satirical videos.

'Today, I've deed stone bottom, but I'm acceptable to instrumentality his archetypal steps toward recovery.'

He added: 'For maine - who has ADHD, which makes maine particularly susceptible to addictive behaviour - Elon Musk's free-speech level X became similar a high-street fixed-odds gambling machine, offering a quick, seductive, and psychologically numbing high.'

Nicholls apologised to CC Shiner and Sussex Police unit and asked for 'forgiveness and understanding' relating to the 'addiction that has dominated my beingness implicit the past decade'.

'I profoundly admit the hard and captious relation the constabulary play and regrets that my actions crossed the line,' helium continued.

'Above all, I americium present to inquire the tribunal for enactment successful breaking escaped from this overwhelming compulsion.

'I whitethorn beryllium the UK's archetypal registered X-oholic, but I won't beryllium the last.'

The begetter said X has 'transformed however radical successful the UK aerial their problems, situation radical successful power, and drawback up connected the news'.

'Now Donald Trump is backmost successful the White House, I fearfulness my addiction volition lone worsen,' helium continued.

'Today, this tribunal has an accidental to amusement nationalist enactment successful acknowledging that thing has to beryllium done to assistance X-oholics similar maine unrecorded a mean life.'

At Portsmouth Magistrates' Court, Nicholls was jailed for 15 weeks, fixed a restraining order, and ordered to wage £239 successful costs.

Magistrates said 'the suspect has a flagrant disregard for tribunal orders due to the fact that the suspect has a flagrant disregard for radical and their property.'

They said his offending featured a 'persistent and prolonged people of actions' and a 'significant grade of readying creating mock up pictures and Twitter accounts'.