Woman drove 230 miles to put up lifeless ‘Pets at Home’ mice via ex’s letterbox

A woman decided to fetch the ultimate revenge to her ex – and even took the liberty of travelling 230 miles to deliver it to them personally – as well as showing off her egg throwing skills

A woman bought a dead mouse from Pets at Home through just to pop through her ex’s letterbox.

As part of her jilted tirade, Eleanor Hepburn drove to the other side of the country to lob eggs at her former lover’s new girlfriend’s mum. Bizarrely she boasted of her egg-launching abilities, filming the action on Snapchat. Reflecting on the frenzied stunt she drove four hours and 230 miles for, Hepburn told Liverpool Crown Court she “wishes she could turn back time”. The chef also threatened to “absolutely bonnet the fat c***s” in a chilling voice note.

This alarming campaign of harassment left her victim feeling as if she was living a “real life horror movie” and forced to move to a new home. Liverpool Crown Court heard that Hepburn had previously been in a relationship with the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in 2023.

However, after they split up in September of that year, the 22-year-old “wouldn’t leave it” and began bombarding her with calls, text messages and emails, as well as driving from her home on the south coast to her ex-girlfriend’s flat in Warrington in order to speak to her in person.

Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, described how the complainant subsequently realised that she still had possession of a bracelet belonging to the defendant and arranged for her to attend her apartment at 10am on August 26 last year in order to collect the item of jewellery. However, Hepburn, of East Street in Portsmouth, instead turned up at 1am and began knocking on her door, then returned at 3am and posted cigarettes through the letterbox.

Later, she was seen standing across the street “looking at her flat and shouting abuse”. Then, on September 14, the victim and her new partner arrived home to find four bins pressed up against her front gate, preventing her from gaining entry to her property.

Hepburn subsequently confessed over message that she had been responsible for this. Five days later, at around 1pm on September 19, her former partner heard a noise at her door at around 1pm and discovered that a dead mouse had been posted through her letterbox.

Throughout the remainder of the day, she and her new girlfriend “were finding dead mice all over the stairs” to her flat. This incident led to her contacting the police.

But Hepburn thereafter continued to visit Warrington “every weekend” and “stared through her window, tried her door handle and messed about with her letterbox”. She also attended the home address of her ex’s new partner’s mum and threw eggs at the property. Hepburn has also filmed the incident and posted the footage to her Snapchat story.

She subsequently told the victim during a phone call that she was at a McDonald’s restaurant on Winwick Road in the town, but was going to visit her home and post fireworks through her letterbox. This led to her being arrested, with videos where a hammer could be seen on her knee later being recovered from her phone.

Hepburn was also found to have recorded a voice note in which she stated: “I’ll run them over. I will absolutely bonnet the fat c****. If you can’t join them, beat them. I’m going to put cat litter all over their door in a f***ing bit. Bringing my name up, f***ing freak.”

Under interview, Hepburn stated that she had bought the mice frozen from Pets at Home and posted them to her ex as she was “p***ed off”. She added that the complainant owed her money and that she had “lost the plot for 10 minutes”

She went on to tell detectives during a second interview in January this year that she was being stalked by her victim. In a statement which was read to the court on her behalf, her former partner said: “This experience has changed me so much that I no longer recognise who I am.

“I no longer trust myself and constantly question my own thought process. My sleep is disturbed every night. I have nightmares about being killed or something bad happening to me or my family.

“I’ve experienced sleep paralysis on more than one occasion, convinced that Eleanor is in the house with knives or fireworks. I thought I was going to die in a fire due to the threats arising from Eleanor.

“I felt traumatised every day, wondering if I would find something dead in my letterbox, inside my home or outside my front door. Eleanor has destroyed the safe space I created with my partner. Despite my new home, I continue to feel, deep inside, like I made a horrible decision reporting her crimes, like I have something to owe her still.

“Eleanor has caused me serious stress, a lot of anxiety, severe depression and made my life feel like a real life horror movie. Unlike a movie, I can’t just turn the TV off.”

Hepburn has one previous conviction for criminal damage in 2021. She admitted stalking and was jailed for 22 months, having previously been handed a five-year stalking protection order.

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