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The vindictive pair uploaded the Alicante woman's personal details online following a dispute
A couple in Alicante have been arrested for taking a neighbourly dispute to another level and posting a woman's personal details on a dating website offering sexual relations.
The man and woman, both Spanish and aged 44, were at loggerheads with the victim over "personal issues" and shared her phone number on the site using photographs of an unknown person.
The victim contacted the police after being "harassed by calls" on her mobile phone from people who had seen the advert.
The woman asked some of the site users to send her screenshots of the website profile, and realised her details and the fact she lived in Alicante had been posted with someone else's pictures.
After contacting the site administrators, police discovered the alleged perpetrators were two people, a couple known to the victim with whom she had had disagreements in the past.
The pair had even used the victim's pet's name to register as a user. They were arrested and charged with an offence against privacy.
According to the Attorney General's Office, a "trivialisation of sexual behaviour" has led to a rise in this type of crime over recent years.
In August 2017, the National Police arrested three people in Alicante for the same offence, publishing details of a neighbour on a dating website with sexual content.
On that occasion, detectives found a "certain sophistication in the planning of the crime". Whilst trying to identify the locations from where the advertisements had been uploaded, they discovered that one of the detainees used different Wi-Fi connections to manipulate and update the content of the profile to try to avoid getting caught.
All three were charged with a crime against moral integrity.
Image: Policia Nacional
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