Instagram vs. reality: Crooks’ social media photos vs. court appearances

We all know that most individuals only post flawless versions of themselves on social media, and the feeds are flooded with manipulated photos.

But these side-by-side images show how individuals really seem without the use of filters, FaceTuning, or staged poses.

No one is flawless all the time, whether it’s bringing narcotics into jail or driving while intoxicated.

Here, MailOnline examines how criminals’ social media posts contrast with their testimony in court.

By bombarding her ex-boyfriend with more than 1,000 texts pleading with him to accept her back, this lady brought him dangerously close to committing suicide.

After Ryan Harley broke up with her, Michelle Felton, a Specsavers employee, became so enamored with him that she called or messaged him as many as 150 times a day.

The pair started dating in May 2020, but broke up in February of the following year after a fight in which she kicked Mr. Harley in the crotch and he accidently fractured Felton’s finger.

After Felton started putting presents on Mr. Harley’s doorstep in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, where he lives with his mother, the police were ultimately contacted.

During their 21-month relationship, Mr. Harley said that Felton had tried to manipulate him.

Felton acknowledged harassment in Chester magistrates’ court after the prosecution accepted her not-guilty plea to coercive behavior.

She was granted bail until sentence, although she might spend up to six months in jail.

Lewis Hughes, an estate agent, admits to punching Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer.

Chris Whitty, England’s top medical officer, was seen in the center of London with this estate agent’s arm around his. Despite admitting to assault, he avoided incarceration.

Lewis Hughes received a suspended sentence after admitting to the 2021 assault at St James’s Park.

Jonathan Chew, a second man from Chelmsford, Essex, entered a not-guilty plea to the same offence.

‘He (Prof Whitty) goes about his extremely arduous work without the expectation of yobs like you accosting him,’ senior district judge Paul Goldspring told Hughes.

And to make matters worse, the publication of that video severely embarrassed him.

Hughes, who showed up to the court in a suit, was handed an eight-week jail term with two years of probation, as well as an additional £307 in penalties and restitution.

Bernadette Halliwell, a single mother who drove her kid 50 miles on the highway while intoxicated,

With her 15-month-old kid in the back of her BMW, this single mother took a 50-mile highway trip while intoxicated yet managed to stay out of prison.

Last year, during the evening rush hour, Bernadette Halliwell was stopped on the M6 at the Keele services in Staffordshire after she was seen weaving in and out of traffic.

When Halliwell was stopped, she was her route to purchase her kid a slide she had saw online.

The Bolton caregiver and mother of one was pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving but refused to submit to a roadside breathalyzer test because she didn’t blow into the device correctly.

She eventually acknowledged consuming alcohol before to her trip and claimed she had only been driving recklessly because she had been disoriented and ‘flustered’, briefly taking her eyes off the road to retrieve her son’s dropped baby bottle.

Halliwell received a court date after the incident as well as a temporary driving suspension.

When she was later discovered operating the same BMW 116 while still in violation of her prohibition, she feigned being the driver in an effort to escape punishment.

Halliwell pleaded guilty at Wigan magistrates court to driving when ineligible, being drunk in charge of a child, failing to submit a test of breath, and being without insurance.

The unmarried mother was spared prison time but was instead given a two-year community order and an 18-month driving restriction.

Chris Whitty was being held in a headlock by thug Jonathan Chew, who was yelling at him.

Last year, while he received his jail term in court, this thug jeered at Professor Sir Chris Whitty as he was in a headlock, chanted “West Ham til I die,” and vaped.

On June 27, 2021, Jonathan Chew approached England’s top medical officer while the two were strolling in St. James’s Park in Westminster.

Social media users uploaded video of the event, which lasted for around 20 seconds and included Chew and former estate agent Lewis Hughes.

Chew, of Chelmsford, Essex, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court and confessed to the charge of intending to annoy, frighten, or otherwise upset Prof. Sir Chris.

Additionally, he acknowledged impeding PC Steven Ozden.

Chew was sentenced to eight weeks in prison and was also had to pay Chew £1,058 in costs and damages by district judge Paul Goldspring.

It happened after the court halted the action to demand that Chew quit vaping in the dock.

Megan Woodham, a female prison employee, transported ketamine to a drug lord who was imprisoned.

This female prison employee cried as she was given a six-year prison term for smuggling ketamine to an imprisoned drug lord.

In HMP Risley, Warrington, Cheshire, prison health nurse Megan Woodham would smuggle cocaine to battered drug lord Daniel Doran.

Additionally, Liverpool Crown Court was informed that the dishonest prison employee utilized her residence as a “safehouse” for a larger, multi-million dollar cocaine operation.

Following a police raid, Woodham was one of three individuals who were sentenced to a combined 34 years in prison.

A plot to distribute cocaine and ketamine between December 2021 and February 2022 was judged to be her fault.

Along with Kelsey Higgins and Doran, Woodham, a fellow criminal from Pemberton in Wigan, was imprisoned.

Both Doran and Higgins received jail sentences of 15 years each for conspiring to provide class A narcotics, and their terms of incarceration were 13 and a half years.

Roofer Andrew Greenslade was barred from driving after being discovered drinking and operating a Bentley.

This roofer, who made £200 a week, was caught drink-driving in his just purchased, £28,000-worth customized Bentley. He was given a driving restriction.

On Facebook, Andrew Greenslade openly bragged about trading in his old vehicle for the grey Continental GT Auto and even made a lighthearted apology to his longtime spouse.

However, the father of two was arrested the previous year when he was found to be intoxicated while driving a 198 mph, six-liter Bentley home from lunch at his neighborhood bar, where he had been raising a few drinks to his late mother who had passed away in 2021.

Police spotted Greenslade dozing off in the front driver’s seat outside his modest end-terrace house in Wilmslow, Cheshire, after receiving allegations that the car was being driven too fast throughout the neighborhood.

He tested almost twice the legal alcohol limit, according to tests.

Greenslade pleaded to driving while intoxicated at Crewe Magistrates’ Court and received a 22-month driving ban.

Amy Newall, a mother of two who exited prison after a drunken, profane outburst, enjoyed cocktails at the bar.

Just minutes after avoiding prison for a drunken, profane outburst against police, this unrepentant mother of two flung up her arms in delight and indulged in drinks in the bar.

Amy Newall, a resident of Liverpool, was seen punching the air with joy and downing pints of beer after her attorney convinced the court to release her by saying she was “sorry” for her actions and that she had given up drinking.

The inmate was apprehended in March of last year after launching into an expletive-filled, homophobic tirade against a police officer while being driven to a station, and then insulting other policemen when transported to the cells.

Ms. Newall headbutted a police van’s transparent Perspex during her outburst and yelled at a PC, “I’m going to break your head off, you f***ing grass, you f***ing grassing b*****d,” while spitting on the ground. “You little f****t, you are f***ing dead.”

She was found to have a history of offences and had previously served time in prison for attacking a police officer, according to investigations.

Ayshea Gunn, a woman who had an affair with Khuram Razaq, a violent prisoner at the HMP Berwyn,

Khuram Razaq, a ‘violent’ Berwyn prisoner, had an affair with this lady.

This week was Ayshea Gunn from Wrexham’s first public appearance after being released from prison.

She admitted to misconduct in a public office at Mold Crown Court in 2019 and was given a 12-month jail term after being found guilty of having sexy encounters with the convicted armed robber while working there.

In less than five months while working at HMP Berwyn, she made more than 1,200 phone conversations, including sexual video chats, with Razaq, who was serving a 12-year term for conspiracy to rob. She was also seen kissing him in his cell.

The criminology and psychology graduate, who now works for a fashion firm in nearby Llangollen, lives alone in a contemporary top-floor apartment close to Wrexham with her dog, a chihuahua mix.

When questioned about her criminal background, she showed resentment that Gavan’s arrest had brought her case back into the spotlight and said she had worked very hard to change her life.

I’ve moved on, Gunn told MailOnline. It’s frustrating that this has all come out again since a different female guard has already received a prison sentence for the identical offense.

I had never met Jennifer Gavan. We have never collaborated.”

Cassandra Austin-Kaye, a former student at a public school who was arrested for driving while almost twice the legal limit,

This former student of a public school was fined £150 last year after being discovered driving while almost twice the legal limit for alcohol.

When Cassandra Austin-Kaye was pulled over in her VW Polo after police saw her driving recklessly close to the kerb, it was presumed that she was giving a friend a ride home.

She had 63 micrograms of alcohol per 100 milliliters of breath, which was above the legal limit of 35 mg, according to a roadside breath test. She acknowledged consuming two glasses of wine prior to the incident.

Austin-Kaye, whose late father Tony was a prominent jeweler in the city, pleaded driving under the influence before Chester Magistrates Court and was given an 18-month driving restriction.

After receiving a friend’s visit at her $1.1 million family home in the Cheshire hamlet of Saighton, Austin-Kaye, who according to her Facebook profile attended the £37,515 per year Moreton Hall school in Oswestry, Shropshire, was arrested.

Estate agent Kirsty Ogden was above the legal limit when she drove her Mercedes into a bus stop.

This estate agent was above the legal alcohol limit when she slammed her Mercedes into a bus stop and then attempted to escape from the cops on foot.

At a work-related goodbye party, Kirsty Ogden had “three or four” drinks before getting in her car. She was informed she was fortunate no one was wounded.

She appeared at the Bromley Magistrates’ Court in south London and entered a plea of guilty to operating the white Mercedes on Charlton Park Road on July 15 of last year while having too much alcohol in her system.

She was further hit with a £300 fine, a £120 victim surcharge, and £85 in expenses.

While the legal limit for driving is 35 micrograms per 100 milliliters, Ogden, of Woolwich, had 78 micrograms of alcohol in 100 milliliters of breath.

Kay Ruscoe, a nursery nurse who was prohibited from driving after being found guilty of DUI

When this nursery nurse was caught drink-driving last year while enjoying a rare evening away from her little kid, she was given a nearly two-year driving penalty.

After losing control of her Vauxhall Astra while returning from a 60th birthday celebration, Kay Ruscoe tested more than twice the legal limit for alcohol.

In one of her first evenings out in months, Ruscoe, of Prenton in Birkenhead, Merseyside, had already organised childcare for her three-year-old kid. However, she overindulged during the party before being invited to the friend’s house.

She was seen by police driving over a stop sign, mounted the curb, and almost hitting a fence.

She confessed to drinking too much while driving at Wirral Magistrates Court and received a 22-month driving suspension.

Terri Parker, a bartender who wrecked her BMW while intoxicated, leaving a little kid permanently disfigured.

Almost three times the legal limit when she wrecked her BMW last year while intoxicated, this bartender evaded prison time but left a little kid permanently damaged.

Terri Parker slammed her 320D SE car into a stopped automobile, then a fence, as she sped around a corner, leaving the six-year-old with a fractured arm, broken leg, and a gash to the forehead.

The youngster and a six-month-old infant, who was not harmed, were passengers in the rear of the BMW at the time of the collision, according to investigations.

The child, who was not using a seatbelt, was said to have a “severe scar” on the side of his face and to be limping in court.

After her newborn baby died, Parker, a caregiver from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, who had been watching the kids, subsequently claimed she had been binge drinking.

She had 238 milligrams of alcohol in her bloodstream per 100 milliliters of blood, over the legal limit of 80 milligrams, according to tests.

Parker entered pleas of guilty to two counts of being intoxicated while in charge of minors, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and to alcohol driving before Warrington Magistrates’ Court.

She was given an eight-week prison term, but it was suspended for a year.

Teenager Catherine Morgan crashed into a home after getting behind the wheel after drinking.

After getting behind the wheel while intoxicated, this adolescent girl crashed into a home, incurring £10,000 in damage. She stayed out of jail.

After driving while inebriated and without insurance, Catherine Morgan, who had only passed her test a few weeks previously, left the bonnet stuck against the house.

She crashed into the ground-floor apartment in a black VW Caddy van while three times above the legal drink-drive limit, according to testimony given in court.

According to prosecutor Olivia Samuel, Morgan damaged personal goods inside the Swansea, South Wales, house as well as the site of the accident, costing £7,900 in repairs.

After the event, which occurred around midnight on Christmas Eve in 2021, police were summoned to the area and discovered “significant” interior and exterior damage.

The apartment owner claimed that her bedroom, which used to be a “safe space where I could feel calm and relaxed,” now made her feel afraid to stay there.

Morgan was sentenced to 10 weeks in jail, suspended for 15 months.

She was also ordered to undergo twenty rehabilitation activity requirements and put subject to a nine month mental health treatment requirement.

Morgan was prohibited from driving for 36 months and forced to pay £400 compensation.

Laura Lyons – Mother who drove her Audi with her two small children inside while approximately four times above limit

This woman drove her Audi with her two young children inside while over four times the alcohol limit and was barred from driving – as a judge condemned her action as ‘reckless, dumb and irresponsible’.

Police conducted a breath test on Laura Lyons after finding her drowsy at the wheel of her vehicle in Urmston, Greater Manchester, on January 15, 2017, where she had pulled over after experiencing what seemed to be a seizure.

A screening revealed that the receptionist had 132 micrograms of alcohol in 100 milliliters of breath, leading to her imprisonment. The permitted dosage is 35mg.

Investigations discovered that Lyons had transported the children to their grandmother in her A6 S-Line car and that she had been drinking “the night before.”

Lyons confessed operating a vehicle while intoxicated before Manchester Magistrates Court and received a 32-month driving prohibition as a result.

In addition, a 12-month community order, 150 hours of unpaid labor, and a $180 cost and surcharges payment were mandated for the defendant.

Robynne Adair, a cosmetics professional who was given a driving suspension after being found driving while intoxicated

A three-year driving ban was imposed on this cosmetics executive after she was found driving while intoxicated while returning from a coworker’s farewell party in 2021.

Police saw Robynne Adair’s VW Tiguan being driven slowly and recklessly along a rural road, and she was found to have more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in her system.

The former fashion buyer afterwards claimed she had been ‘pressured’ into attending the event on the last working day before Christmas. The former fashion buyer now makes £48,000 a year as a brand merchandiser for Amelia Knight Cosmetics in Knutsford, Cheshire.

She said that if she was disqualified, she would have to go the 16 miles to work from her house in Fallowfield, Manchester, in five hours round trip, using the bus, train, and foot.

Adair had 80 micrograms of alcohol in 100 milliliters of breath, according to tests. The permitted dosage is 35mg.

Investigations found that she had previously received a 20-month driving prohibition for drinking and driving in 2012, while enrolled at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Adair, who has a first class honors degree in design and technology, confessed driving while intoxicated and was sentenced to a three-year driving ban at Stockport Magistrates Court. She also received a £576 punishment plus $143 in expenses.

Elizabeth McKnight, a driver who was discovered intoxicated by police on the side of a major road, refused to take a breathalyzer test.

When authorities discovered this intoxicated driver on the side of a major road, she rejected a breath test but was not arrested because she claimed she didn’t start drinking until her vehicle broke down.

On August 6, 2017, after being contacted by police in Chester near her stopped Nissan Qashqai, Elizabeth McKnight repeatedly refused to provide the sample.

The Bromborough on the Wirral, Cheshire, mother-of-two admitted to police that she had drunk two bottles of wine while waiting for her father to pick her up when her vehicle broke down.

She claimed to have thrown away two empty wine bottles farther up the embankment, but when authorities searched the area, they located just one almost empty bottle of wine in the footwell of the vehicle.

The Nissan was also uninsured, according to inquiries.

When McKnight appeared before Chester Magistrates Court, she acknowledged omitting to submit a breath sample.

She was given a 12-month community corrections order instead of the potential six-month jail sentence she was facing. She also had her license suspended for two years and was required to complete 60 hours of unpaid work in addition to an additional 20 days of rehabilitation activities with the probation service.

She was also had to pay £234 in victim surcharge and expenses.

Corporate headhunter Claire Lyon was given a driving suspension after she failed a breathalyzer test while driving drunk at 2 in the morning to get an 89 cent McDonald’s hamburger.

This corporate headhunter was given a driving ban and a £2,000 legal cost last year after she refused a breathalyzer during a drunken 2 am journey to get an 89p McDonald’s cheeseburger.

When Claire Lyon failed to turn on the headlights of her borrowed vehicle, police arrested her during a routine traffic check.

The business professional, who works as a senior talent acquisition partner for a data analytics firm and makes £61,000 per year, provided a positive breath sample at the roadside but refused to submit to another test at the police station, saying, “No, I would rather go to court.”

After drinking two glasses of wine during a night in with friends, the incidence happened.

She was preparing to go back to her rural cottage in Pickmere, Cheshire, near Knutsford when a friend invited her to accompany her to a late-night burger joint.

At Chester Magistrates’ Court, Lyon pleaded guilty to failing to produce a breath sample and was given a 20-month driving ban. She was also charged a victim surcharge of £673 in addition to a $1,383 fine.

Jenna Basravi, the mother of a bullied student who waved down police, was detained for DUI.

The frantic mother of a bullied youngster was pulled over for DUI last year when she waved down a police car after confronting her daughter’s abusers.

Pull over, Jenna Basravi yelled. Turn back and halt now! When she saw the kids lingering on the street, she yelled “at the police from the window of her Mini Cooper.

However, Basravi was also arrested when the officer saw that she had been drinking extensively, breathalyzed her, and discovered that she had consumed more than twice the legal limit of alcohol.

It’s unclear whether the patrolman interacted with the kids.

Basravi, a married mother of three from Southport who had never before been afoul of the law, pleaded to drinking and driving and was given a 17-month driving restriction at Sefton magistrates court, close to Liverpool.

Ilayda Tomes, a teetotal teaching assistant who was ‘pressured’ into drinking and then was discovered driving under the influence,

This teaching assistant who had never touched alcohol was discovered driving under the influence in her brand-new Mercedes after feeling “pressured” to do so. Both her job and her license were gone.

Before being pulled over for driving under the influence on August 13, 2021, Ilayda Tomes of Wilmslow, Cheshire, said she had been “pressured” into drinking wine at a restaurant by her companions.

The former art historian told the court that she had gave two guys a ride home after leaving the restaurant because she was afraid they may follow three ladies home.

However, cops saw her two-month-old silver C Class AMG Mercedes traveling at 50 mph in a 30 mph zone and striking a curb.

Tomes, who was formerly from Antalya, Turkey, was pulled over near her £800,000 house and discovered to be almost twice the legal alcohol limit.

Tests revealed that Tomes, who abstains from alcohol due to religious convictions, had 59 micrograms of alcohol in 100 milliliters of breath—more than twice the permitted limit of 35 mg.

At Stockport Magistrates Court, Tomes, who assisted youngsters with special needs at a school in Holmes Chapel, sobbed as she acknowledged driving while intoxicated.

She received a 16-month driving restriction, a $230 fine, and $119 in fees.

Jordan Knight, a mother of one who violated the drink-drive limit while operating her Audi A3, was given a driving ban.

After being discovered driving her Audi A3 six points above the legal limit for alcohol consumption, this single mother of one sobbed in court as she received a one-year driving penalty.

Last year, businesswoman Jordan Knight was seen driving recklessly on the M56 highway in Cheshire. She was stopped and breathalyzed in front of a restaurant.

She had 41 micrograms of alcohol in 100 milliliters of breath, according to tests.

Knight, who owns a farmhouse in the outlying community of Shocklach in Malpas and often cleans for rural residences and livery stables alone, sobbed in court as she worried that her automatic driving restriction would leave her stranded at home.

Knight received a £92 victim surcharge in addition to an £80 fine and a 12-month driving suspension.

Kimberley Blyth, a person who “threatening to bite her nose off” and kicked a police officer,

After a dispute with bouncers over her purse, this lady kicked a police officer and “threatening to tear her nose off,” yet she was not sent to prison.

On a “rare night out” in Middlesbrough, Kimberley Blyth experienced a “emotional spiral” after leaving a pub without her luggage carrying her “entire life.”

On August 26, 2022, she was “taken away,” but it ended in a standoff when she was denied access to a bar to retrieve her purse.

When she was taken into custody, the Hartlepool lady attacked a policeman and was found to be in possession of marijuana.

In court, Blyth admitted to assaulting a police officer and having class B banned substances in his possession.