A former nurse who posed as a man online to trick women into sending naked pictures has been jailed for three years, just months after being released from prison for a similar offence.
Adele Rennie, 28, used a voice-changing app to pretend to be a wealthy lawyer named 'Dan' on Tinder. She targeted a woman, asking for her mobile number and calling her from a withheld number in a voice described as 'strange and tinny'. Rennie alarmed the victim by saying she went to the same places, including a Morrisons supermarket and a gym, and hinted she knew her postcode. The victim feared she was being stalked and went to stay with family.
Prosecutor Ruaraidh Ferguson told Kilmarnock Sheriff Court that detectives played the victim an audio clip of Rennie's disguised voice from her 2017 prosecution, and she confirmed it sounded like 'Dan'. Rennie also told a third victim she did not like the judge, Liz McFarlane, who had sentenced her previously.
Rennie initially claimed she was a victim of conspiracy but later admitted computer misuse offences causing fear and alarm. Her defence said she suffered from low self-esteem and sought revenge after being recognised by a victim who called her a 'beast'. Sheriff McFarlane told weeping Rennie she had behaved in a 'cold and calculated way' to humiliate and harass others.
