In September 2024, detectives received a report of strangers turning up at the home of a woman – some believing she wanted to act out a “rape fantasy”.
Each of the men claimed they had been invited round to her house after matching with her on the dating app Tinder.
But the reality was that Asad Hussain, who she had been in a relationship with for a matter of weeks, had created a fake profile in her name and was pretending to be her online.
The 36-year-old, from Cheadle, in Greater Manchester, would invite random men to the woman’s home in Cheshire, with some turning up in the middle of the night.
“That’s not just violating your privacy, it’s violating your feeling of safety, your children’s feeling of safety,” said PC Keith Terrill, a specialist stalking investigator at Cheshire Police.
“This is one of the most disturbing stalking cases Cheshire Constabulary has ever investigated.”
Hussain was only caught after a police review of footage from the victim’s doorbell, which was then checked against other systems to establish his identity, Cheshire Police said.
He was jailed for eight years after being found guilty of stalking, assault and failing to comply with an order to provide passcodes to his devices at Chester Crown Court.