A Question about Hotlinked Images

I discovered someone hotlinking my images. I deleted the image off my blog and out of my blog's database, yet the image still appears hotlinked on the site. I have tried refreshing the page, and deleting my stored data/cookies etc, yet it remains. I thought if I delete the image (so it's no longer online) then that would immediately break the link and the image on their site would stop?

They've definitely hotlinked it from me, so I'm really confused!

Help? Please? :)

Katie

Why do you think it is hotlinked? Does it show up in your stats? If you have deleted the image from your space (all occurances) then they aren't hotlinking, they have "lifted" it.