EXCLUSIVE
Australia’s ‘Baby Reindeer’ has been caught taunting her victims with sexy photos and secret messages after being convicted of stalking them.
Kobi Langshaw, a suburban mother of three, was sentenced last week to five years in prison for three counts of harassment and 21 counts of breaching a violence restraining order for crimes committed in 2020.
Perth Magistrates Court heard the paralegal had pursued two male lawyers in a “deliberate, relentless and carefully calculated” eight-year campaign.
Her obsession with Patrick Gardner, with whom she was in love, and his best friend Aaron Herbert, whom she detested, mirrored the hit Netflix show Baby Reindeer, where a lawyer stalks a bartender who showed his kindness.
But just days after being found guilty of harassment in May, Daily Mail Australia can now reveal that Langshaw began a bizarre double life on TikTok that continued for months until the day before her sentencing on October 10.
Using video filters, she shaved years off her appearance to pose as a glamorous young student in a college dorm.
But her online biography mocked her victims and their efforts to bring her to justice, with her profile photo reading: “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 for three counts of stalking and 21 counts of breaching a violence restraining order.
Using video filters, Kobi Langshaw shaved years off her looks to pose as a glamorous young student in a college dorm.
Langshaw’s obsession mirrored the hit Netflix show Baby Reindeer, starring Richard Gadd (left) and Jessica Gunning (right), where a lawyer stalks a waiter who showed his kindness.
Langshaw is almost unrecognizable in the video clips, wearing revealing tops and fluttering her eyelashes while posing as a lovestruck student, often posting several times a day.
Langshaw regularly updated his 217 followers from inside a small, sparsely furnished room containing only a desk and a single bed, plus personal items.
Langshaw threw herself onto her rainbow-colored children’s quilt, complete with matching fluffy pillows, and laughed at the camera as she mimed love songs while making heart-shaped gestures with her hands.
Using the hashtag #nocontact and a phone emoji, in reference to the severe restraining orders against him, he looked directly into the camera.
“Reaching for the phone, I can’t fight it anymore and I wonder if it’s ever crossed your mind,” he mimed in the disturbing clip.
Langshaw has a rare lifetime ban on contacting his victims again, which includes visiting the areas where they work, live and drink coffee.
In other posts earlier this month, just days before her sentencing, Langshaw added a revealing love quote to the end of a montage of doctored photos of herself.
“You are the wrong person with whom I lived my right love story, and I am the right person who entered your life by mistake,” he posted.
The caption added: “You’ll never understand how much I suffered before us.”
But in an ominous warning, he added: “Season two is coming soon.”
In their victim impact statements to the court, both Gardner and Herbert said they felt “completely helpless” as they endured his relentless campaign against them.
Paralegal Kobi Langshaw pursued two male lawyers in a “deliberate, relentless and carefully calculated” eight-year campaign. He looks almost unrecognizable in leaked photos posted on social media.
Kobi Langshaw regularly updated his 217 followers from inside a small, sparsely furnished room containing only a desk and a single bed, plus personal items.
Gardner, who met Langshaw when she hired him for a family law matter, said he had struggled to be taken seriously when he tried to raise the alarm about her harassment.
But sentencing her 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 remains completely in love with Mr. Gardner,” she added.
Magistrate Coleman noted that Langshaw was “very skilled 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 just stared at him the entire time,” the magistrate said. ‘He did everything he could to avoid her relentless gaze.
‘She even took her hair out of her ponytail and threw it over her shoulders in an attempt to get his attention.
“It was very disconcerting.”
