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In September 2024, police detectives began investigating unusual reports of men arriving uninvited at a woman’s residence in Cheshire. These men believed they were responding to an invitation connected to a so-called “rape fantasy,” having matched with her on the dating app Tinder. However, the truth behind the situation was far more sinister. The woman’s ex-partner, Asad Hussain, aged 36 and from Cheadle, Greater Manchester, had fabricated a Tinder profile using her photos and personal details, luring random men to her address, sometimes in the dead of night.
Hussain’s behavior escalated beyond online deception. Initially contacting the woman under the false name Mick Renney in April 2024, the pair dated briefly, but his behavior soon became controlling and abusive. PC Keith Terrill, a stalking specialist with Cheshire Police, described how Hussain once rang her doorbell continuously for two hours before leaving only after police intervention was prompted by a concerned neighbor. “That’s not just violating your privacy, it’s violating your feeling of safety, your children’s feeling of safety,” Terrill emphasized, calling it one of the most disturbing stalking cases his department had encountered.
After their breakup, Hussain retaliated by creating the fake Tinder profile to encourage strangers to visit the woman’s home. He provided these men with her phone number and increasingly dangerous instructions. Terrill detailed the progression: “Initially, they were told to attend and to knock on her address. Then they were told that she was in the address waiting for them to arrive and to let themselves in and the front door was open, but they should give it a shove because it’s stiff.” The instructions later escalated to the men being told that the woman wanted to act out a violent fantasy, with chilling directions about ignoring refusal. At least 18 men arrived at the property, with some causing damage or entering the home while the woman’s teenage daughter was alone upstairs.
Law enforcement identified Hussain’s role after reviewing footage from the victim’s doorbell camera, which showed a man traveling in a white Audi R8 registered to Hussain. Cheshire Police discovered he had taken numerous measures to hide his true identity, using three different phones for his personal use, the fake Mick Renney account, and the Tinder profile. Despite efforts to destroy these devices, telecom inquiries revealed overlapping movements of the phones, linking them all back to Hussain. PC Terrill remarked on the misconception that cyber-enabled crimes offer anonymity: “If you do it online via these techniques it leaves a trail and we will use the powers available to us to find that trail and that trail will lead back to you. You will be caught and you will be held accountable.” Hussain was subsequently arrested, convicted of stalking, assault, and failing to comply with a court order, and sentenced to eight years in prison at Chester Crown Court
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