EXCLUSIVE
Australia’s ‘Baby Reindeer’ has been caught taunting her victims with sultry photos and secret messages after being convicted of stalking.
Kobi Langshaw, a suburban mother of three, was sentenced last week to five years in prison on three counts of stalking and 21 counts of violating a restraining order for crimes committed in 2020.
Perth Magistrates Court heard the clerk had pursued two male lawyers in a “deliberate, ruthless and carefully calculated” eight-year campaign.
Her obsession with Patrick Gardner, whom she had a crush on, and his best friend Aaron Herbert, whom she hated, mirrored the hit Netflix show Baby Reindeer, in which a lawyer pursues a bartender who showed her kindness.
But just days after she was found guilty of stalking in May, Daily Mail Australia can now reveal Langshaw began a bizarre double life on TikTok that lasted months until the day before her sentencing on October 10.
Using video filters, she stripped off years of her appearance to pose as a glamorous young student at university digs.
But her online biography mocked her victims and their efforts to bring her to justice, writing in her profile photo: “Be like a butterfly – always beautiful but hard to catch.”
Kobi Langshaw, a suburban mother of three, was sentenced last week to five years in prison on three charges of stalking and 21 charges of breaching a restraining order
Using video filters, Kobi Langshaw stripped off years of her appearance to pose as a glamorous young student at university digs
Langshaw’s obsession mirrored the hit Netflix show Baby Reindeer, starring Richard Gadd (left) and Jessica Gunning (right), in which a lawyer pursues a bartender who showed her kindness
Langshaw is almost unrecognizable in the video clips. She wears revealing tops and flutters her eyelashes as she pretends to be a lovesick student, often posting several times a day.
Langshaw kept her 217 followers regularly updated from a small, sparsely furnished room with only a desk, a single bed and personal items.
Langshaw threw herself on her childish rainbow-colored bedspread with matching fluffy pillows and giggled for the camera as she mimed love songs while making heart-shaped gestures with her hands.
With the hashtag caption #nocontact and a phone emoji – referring to the strict restraining orders against her – she stared straight into the camera.
“I reach for the phone, I can’t fight it anymore and I wonder if I ever crossed your mind,” she impersonated in the disturbing clip.
Langshaw has a rare lifetime ban on ever contacting her victims again, including visiting areas where they work, live and drink coffee.
In other posts earlier this month, just days away from her sentencing, Langshaw added a telling love quote to the end of a montage of altered photos of herself.
“You are the wrong person who I lived my right love story with, and I am the right person who accidentally came into your life,” she posted.
The caption added: “You will never understand how much I suffered for us.”
But in a stern warning, she added: “Season two is coming.”
In their victim impact statements to the court, both Mr Gardner and Mr Herbert said they felt ‘utterly helpless’ as they endured her brutal campaign against them.
Lawyer Kobi Langshaw pursued two male lawyers in a “deliberate, ruthless and carefully calculated” eight-year campaign. She looks almost unrecognizable in filtered photos posted to social media
Kobi Langshaw gave her 217 followers regular updates from a small, sparsely furnished room with only a desk, a single bed and personal items
Mr Gardner, who met Langshaw when she hired him for a family law matter, said he struggled to be taken seriously when he tried to raise the alarm about her stalking.
But at her sentencing last week, Magistrate Belinda Coleman branded Langshaw “very dangerous” and said she was at high risk of offending.
“It is clear that she was and still is completely in love with Mr. Gardner,” she added.
Magistrate Coleman noted that Langshaw was ‘very adept at lying to take advantage of others’ and was clearly still obsessed with him.
“The first time he gave evidence she stopped taking notes and stared at him the whole time,” the magistrate said. “He did her best to avoid her unwavering gaze.
She even took her hair out of her ponytail and brushed it around her shoulders in an attempt to get his attention.
“It was very nerve-wracking.”
