Jealous lover hacked email

Then, if she is, it might not be such a good idea to show that you were there by deleting her new bloke's emails. If you do that, don't print out copies of the emails for the police to find when they pop around to ask you a few questions. Such things tend to land you in court.

An Aussie court heard how Craig Henry Griffis, 39, was simply snooping when he hacked into his ex-partner's email account in March 2003.

After all he had helped his girlfriend of seven years set up the account and knew her password.

He had kept in touch with the woman and had hopes of reconciliation with her but "wanted to check out her situation".

So he went and looked at her email and found a series of personal emails between her and the new man in her life. In a fit of "pure unadulterated spite", Griffis printed out the five emails and then deleted them.

It turned out that before she dumped him, the woman was seeing someone on the side. Police raided Griffis's Darwin home and found the copies of the emails and arrested him.

He admitted the hacking charge but told the court that his life had changed since the incident in 2003. He had since settled down and married a woman from Cambodia.

According to Australian Associate Press, Griffis could have faced ten years inside for hacking, but Acting Justice Olssen said the offending was at the lower end of the scale, and Griffis had shown remorse by pleading guilty.

Griffis was given a five months' suspended jail sentence. The full story can be found here. µ