The glamorous ex-girlfriend of a preferred Love Island UK contestant made worldwide headlines after she was blindsided when her on-and-off boyfriend went on the infamous present with out her information.
Stevie-Leigh Pich has once more made headlines after she was caught driving with medication in her system whereas residing in Sydney’s jap suburbs.
Pich first went viral in 2020 when she claimed she was nonetheless cherished up with Connor Durman who all of a sudden appeared on Love Island UK.
The pair had spent the earlier 4 years collectively residing in Australia earlier than shifting again house to the UK as an “on-again, off-again” couple.
Pich turned outraged after discovering out Durman was showing on the present, telling native media he was “on the present for the cash” and found he cheated on her by means of his pre-show interview.
Since then, Pich has lived a comparatively quiet life in Sydney attempting to achieve a job till she was caught by police driving with medication in her system.
LOVE ISLAND SCANDAL
When the 2020 season of Love Island UK kicked off, Pich took to social media to disclose she and Durman had break up up simply weeks earlier than the present started.
“Simply to let everybody know I used to be with him seven weeks in the past simply earlier than I got here again out to Australia (on HIS visa) and I used to be in a 3 yr relationship with him when he knew all alongside he was occurring Love Island,” she posted on her Instagram story.
“Completely savage, I want Connor all one of the best.”
Pich stated it had been “horrendous” discovering out so publicly about Durman’s determination to go on the present.
The 25-year-old advised native media it was “very arduous to digest” her boyfriend of a number of years had signed up for the present after they’d spoken about shopping for a home and beginning a future collectively.
Pich, who boasts greater than 20,000 Instagram followers, stated she cooked, cleaned and “did every part” for Durman once they have been collectively.
Nevertheless, on the present he stated: “I’ve been residing in Australia for 4 years, in that point I’ve grown up, carried out every part myself.”
It was revealed the pair had met whereas backpacking and dealing on a banana farm in Australia, shortly changing into inseparable.
Pich had been residing in Australia on a accomplice visa with Durman when she was alerted that he went on the present.
“I’m nonetheless out right here now, I’m nonetheless on his visa till October. It’s been horrendous. It’s very arduous for me to digest what’s occurring,” she advised the MailOnline on the time.
“I’ve been studying from his interview that he went on a date with a woman and it have been one of the best date ever – I don’t know when that was, however he was seeing me, we went to Thailand collectively in July final yr, we have been planning on shopping for a home collectively!”
In the meantime, a supply who claimed they have been near Durman stated he had been single for eight months earlier than occurring the present.
RUN-IN WITH POLICE
Pich’s social media boasts a glamorous life in Australia, residing in Sydney’s jap suburbs.
Nevertheless, all of it got here to a head when she was stopped by police about 8.30pm on January 30 in Hillsdale throughout a roadside drug check and examined optimistic for cocaine.
The UK resident returned a detrimental outcome for alcohol however examined optimistic for the drug and was charged with driving a automobile with a bootleg drug current.
Seemingly shocked by the outcome, she advised officers she “hadn’t carried out it for about two weeks”.
After being issued a court docket attendance discover, Pich failed to seem in court docket and was convicted in her absence.
She was fined $1500 and disqualified from driving for six months.
The Instagram influencer instantly filed to have the conviction overturned however maintained her plea of responsible.
“INNOCENT AS THEY COME”
Three days earlier than her first court docket look, she shared a photograph to her 20,000 Instagram followers with the caption “as harmless as they arrive”.
She was as a consequence of face court docket on August 16, however she by no means confirmed up.
Whereas her lawyer struggled to clarify to the Justice of the Peace why she wasn’t in court docket, Pich posted to Instagram whereas taking off from Sydney airport.
Pich shared a number of scandalous snaps on her personal account, exhibiting her wearing a black fur trim coat with two glasses of white wine and her location tagged because the American Categorical Lounge at Sydney airport.
She shared a second picture alongside the lyrics to “Greaze Mode” by British grime rapper Skepta, together with the road “Imma break the regulation”.
After she skipped her court docket look, Justice of the Peace Jacqueline Milledge stated Pich had a “important historical past for medication”.
“She has an terrible driving report, she desires an adjournment to do a site visitors offender program … she has a severe drug program, I don’t care if she’s doing this system or not,” she stated.
‘HORRIFIC’ TRAFFIC RECORD
When she lastly appeared at court docket on August 24, Waverley Native Courtroom was advised the 25-year-old had suffered a “giant diploma of guilt and disgrace” for the offence.
Lawyer Hisham Karnib stated Pich was being handled for anxiousness and despair.
“I gained’t go as far as to say she has a psychological well being situation,” he stated.
“It’s one thing she’s searching for remedy for now.”
Mr Karnib advised the court docket that his shopper was not pulled over as a result of she was driving dangerously.
“She clearly wasn’t affected by medication,” he stated.
Justice of the Peace Ross Hudson declared Pich had a “horrific site visitors report”.
He famous the Eastgardens resident dedicated 15 rushing offences within the final 18 months, though she stored her report clear since driving with cocaine in her system in January.
THE SENTENCE
In a letter to the court docket, Pich wrote “I take this extremely severely and I’m extremely disillusioned with myself for not contemplating that they might nonetheless be in my system”.
Mr Hudson determined to not convict the glamorous 25-year-old, as an alternative imposing an 18-month conditional launch order that prohibits her from committing additional offences.
He strongly urged her to deal with her relationship with medication and to not return to court docket.
“You say you don’t have an issue with medication. I have to say I urge to vary. As soon as bitten, twice shy,” he stated.
“Don’t count on to come back again to any court docket on this state and have any additional leniency that what you’ve simply had.”
Mr Karnib stated his shopper aspired to work in actual property and hoped to journey abroad within the close to future.
