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'Office Cougar' Jailed for Preying on Married Men
The Telegraph ^ | 14 Jun 2012

Posted on 06/17/2012 7:14:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A Cambridge graduate who described herself as the “office cougar” has been jailed for falsely claiming she was having affairs with her married male colleagues.

Software engineer Jeevani Wickramaratna, 44, spun a web of deceit, bombarding the men with sexually explicit messages, emailing their wives and even falsely claiming one man had HIV.

She was found guilty of sexual harassment and jailed for 26 weeks by District Judge David Parsons, who blasted her "complete fantasy world". He said: "They trusted you and you abused that trust and during the trial you repeated the wicked allegations you made against each one of them and it is eminently clear that you are completely incapable of telling the truth." Wickramaratna called herself a cougar, a term used to describe an older woman who pursues younger men.

She became infatuated with co-worker Paul Stokes after he emailed her offering her some of his birthday cake, and went on to besiege him with emails and Facebook messages, South Somerset Magistrates Court in Yeovil heard.

Christine Hart, prosecuting, said: "She claimed that Mr Stokes was having an affair with the office 'cougar', and many of the messages were sexually explicit and caused great distress to both him and his family.

"Wickramaratna then began sending him a series of messages saying she was setting him free and said she had told his family about their affair and that he loved her."

Further abusive Facebook messages were sent, including a false allegation that Mr Stokes had been diagnosed with HIV, all of which caused great humiliation.

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1 posted on 06/17/2012 7:14:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Lazamataz

Ummmm....

Laz?


2 posted on 06/17/2012 7:17:47 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Look for the union label, then buy elsewhere.)
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3 posted on 06/17/2012 7:20:14 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1244 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
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To: nickcarraway

Guilty!


4 posted on 06/17/2012 7:21:04 PM PDT by G Larry
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To: nickcarraway

What a jerk. I’m glad the judge tossed her in jail and I feel sorry for the next victim that hires the witch.


5 posted on 06/17/2012 7:21:40 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: nickcarraway
"They trusted you and you abused that trust and during the trial you repeated the wicked allegations you made against each one of them

Wickramaratna had a wicked mantra...

6 posted on 06/17/2012 7:23:25 PM PDT by mikrofon ("Jeevani saw them, I thought they wanted me.")
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To: nickcarraway

Not all that uncommon really.

Back when I was a foreman I and several of my counterparts signed off on firing a woman for similar behavior. We even had a fight on the shop floor that resulted from her crap. She was a disruption and she had to go.

I couldn’t figure it out. She was butt ugly.


7 posted on 06/17/2012 7:24:03 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: null and void; Lazmataz
Look at the eyes. They tell the story.

But Laz would hit it.

8 posted on 06/17/2012 7:24:03 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: nickcarraway

But isn’t it preached that all female supervisors are the fairest, most level-headed, honest, and the other feel-good claptrap?


9 posted on 06/17/2012 7:25:24 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: nickcarraway

“Jeevani Wickramaratna”

You know what they say about eating things you can’t pronounce.


10 posted on 06/17/2012 7:35:07 PM PDT by nhoward14
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But isn’t it preached that all female supervisors are the fairest, most level-headed, honest, and the other feel-good claptrap?

Depends on the woman. We had a general manager who was a woman who had been in the shop for 30 years. She was ruthless and downright cold hearted as a boss and I loved it.

Everybody else would scatter when they saw her coming but I would meet her half way and tell he what was going on. She respected me for it.

Nothing worse than a wishy washy boss.
11 posted on 06/17/2012 7:35:28 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: null and void

I’d hit it ... with a shot of Raid.


12 posted on 06/17/2012 7:40:19 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s a wonder that the bosses didn’t fire every one of the men. That’s what they usually do.


13 posted on 06/17/2012 7:40:30 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: RandallFlagg

Dunno about Laz, but I’d hit it... with a restraining order!


14 posted on 06/17/2012 7:44:11 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: cripplecreek

I have had a few and most were OK and a couple good.

There was one that was ruthless, conniving, duplicitious, malicious, and those were her good points. She was also one ugly, big, and obese. A nose job would help some.

She also lived in liberal la-la land preaching living green, sharing the wealth, domineering her stupid kid and her worthless jerk husband, changing rules and procedures on me daily and weekly, chewing me for any and everything no matter what, and screwing me on any job I applied for anywhere else in the univ. system.

She even mandated that I say nothing to people at all since I apparently disturbed people while they “worked”. Never mind that people blared radios and lived on phones all day.

I was driven almost to nervous breakdown. She had all management in her pocket since she was the all powerful network admin.

The GM was orginally friendly towards me but near the end he would avoid me.

Near the end, I got this formal reprimand of stack of papers a couple inches thick of every transgression I apparently committed. She played nice but no doubt she enjoyed trying to ruin me.

I was just a guy who was nice to people, kept my opinions to myself, tried to fill out every little new form, tripe/quadruple check everything, made mistakes like the others, and coud do no right no matter what others would come into the office and say many complimentary things about me and my work.

This wacko piece of work is still entrenched and protected from what I hear.


15 posted on 06/17/2012 7:53:26 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: Nervous Tick

Wouldn’t a shot of Raid kill a nervous tick?


16 posted on 06/17/2012 7:54:51 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1244 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
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To: null and void

ZOIKS!


17 posted on 06/17/2012 7:55:35 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (It's hurricane season! Yay!)
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To: wally_bert

The best term I have heard about those types is psycho(female dog).

Worked with a few of them.
Best to leave them very well alone.


18 posted on 06/17/2012 7:57:34 PM PDT by Texas resident (November 6 - Vote Against obama)
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To: nickcarraway

She developed a crush on a man ‘cause he offered her some of his birthday cake?


19 posted on 06/17/2012 7:57:43 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (It's hurricane season! Yay!)
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To: nickcarraway

She developed a crush on a man ‘cause he offered her some of his birthday cake?


20 posted on 06/17/2012 7:57:43 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (It's hurricane season! Yay!)
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