A man has been jailed for eight years after setting up a fake Tinder profile for his ex-partner and enticing multiple men to her house. Asad Hussain, 36, from Cheadle in Greater Manchester, appeared at Chester Crown Court on Monday, where he was also handed a 15-year restraining order. He had previously been found guilty of stalking involving serious alarm or distress and assault by beating.
The court heard the victim had been on a few dates with Hussain in April 2024 before ending the relationship at the start of May. In late July, several men began turning up at her house, saying they had matched with her on the dating app. On one night in August, four different men came, all saying they had received almost identical messages. Some were told she wanted to engage in a 'rape fantasy' and wanted to be 'roughed up', and that if she said 'no' it meant she 'wanted it more'.
In September, as she went to answer the door, a man shoved it, causing a glass panel to smash. He showed her messages from the fake Tinder account telling him the front door was open and to 'shove' it as it was 'stiff'. Later that day, another man entered her home while her teenage daughter was upstairs alone, before leaving without incident.
At least 18 men are believed to have been deceived into going to her house. In a statement, the victim said: 'No sentence takes away the enormous impact his behaviour has had on both myself and my daughters. No person has the right to make me feel unsafe in my own home just because I no longer want to date them.' The investigating officer, PC Keith Terrill, said the case was 'one of the most technically complex and disturbing' Cheshire Constabulary had ever investigated.
