Police officer sent threatening messages to convicted burglar ex

A female police officer has been found guilty of harassment after sending a series of threatening messages to her convicted burglar ex when he dumped her.

Police Constable Miriam Virgo, an online personality who had more than 160,000 social media followers, embarked on an 'ill-advised' relationship with Carl Cserfalvi-Young after he was released from prison.

But after three weeks he broke it off, a move she 'didn't take well at all', prosecutors said. 

The Thames Valley Police officer threatened him 'gangster style' using a website which allows users to pay to send anonymous texts, the court heard during a week long trial.

Virgo is said to have told Mr Cserfalvi-Young his days were 'numbered' in the messages which she also sent to his mother.

A jury has now found her guilty of harassment but cleared her of a separate charge of putting a person in fear of violence by harassment.

The constable - who now appears to have deleted her Instagram account - will be sentenced in November.

Opening the trial last week, prosecutor Charles Ward-Jackson told Salisbury Crown Court, Wilts, the offence was made up of nine separate events that took place between May 31 and September 10, 2022.

'This is about a woman who started threatening violence to a man following the break up of the relationship.

'[Virgo] had told Mr Young that she was a serving police officer.

'It was an unusual and possibly ill-advised relationship between a burglar and a serving police officer.

'The relationship did not last very long,' he said.

The court heard Mr Cserfalvi-Young had recently been released from prison for burglary when the pair met at a pub in Reading, Berks, in May 2022.

After meeting again and exchanging messages online, they began a relationship.

Mr Cserfalvi-Young ended their relationship via phone call at the start of June to get back with his ex-partner, jurors were told.

Following the break up Virgo looked up his past girlfriend on Facebook and called her to say she had 'won' and 'got him back'.

Later that evening she messaged Mr Cserfalvi-Young to tell him she had 'a lot of people are looking out for me' and warned him her cousins had said 'of all the people you could have f***ed over you picked the wrong one'.

Mr Ward-Jackson added: 'The implication of the messages is that she had people looking out for her to make Carl Young's life unpleasant.'

She then rang him and said: 'You've seen a nice side of me, but you haven't seen the other side of me, and if you f*** with me I will f*** with you.

'I've got nothing to lose.

'I'm not okay, I'm ready to take a f***ing knife on [sic] my kitchen, so you better f***ing start talking to me right f***ing now.'

The court heard there was then little correspondence until a 'small flurry' of anonymous messages in early September were sent to Mr Cserfalvi-Young and his mother.

In 'disturbing and sinister' messages the prosecution alleges that Ms Virgo pretended to be a lover of Mr Cserfalvi-Young's girlfriend.

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In the first message, sent on September 3, she said: 'your days are numbered... I know where u live. Ur a dead man walking.'

'F*** off and leave her alone*u need to back da f*** off or ur gonna get hurt,' she said in a message on September 6.

Mr Cserfalvi-Young reported the 'series of threats' to the police and a week later Virgo was arrested.

The court heard her phone had been accessing a website where users can send anonymous texts for a small fee and payments had been sent to a company linked to the website.

Mr Ward-Jackson told the court it became clear it was Virgo who had sent the texts and had simultaneously been sending threatening texts to herself to 'throw investigators off the scent'.

In her police interview, she said Mr Cserfalvi-Young had 'love bombed' her at the pub and any threat had been 'misunderstood'.

Mr Cserfalvi-Young broke down in the witness box when he talked about the anonymous threats made against his mum and said he was afraid of being sent back to prison.

He said: 'All I knew is that she was threatening me with her cousins. I took her seriously. I was shocked and worried about what she was going to do. I felt threatened and worried.

'I have just come out of prison, I did not want to go back to prison. In my eyes it is a threat to me, to my safety.'

Thames Valley Police have been approached for comment.