A stalker who set up a fake Tinder dating app account in his ex’s name and invited strangers to her house has been jailed.

Asad Hussain made random men believe the victim wanted to engage in a “rape fantasy” and be “roughed up”.

Chester Crown Court heard on one night in August 2024 four men attended her address in a single night, while in September a man shoved her door so hard that it smashed.

Hussain, 36, was convicted of stalking causing serious alarm or distress, assault and failing to comply with an order to provide passwords to his devices and locked up for eight years.

In a victim statement read to the court, the woman said: “No person has the right to make me feel unsafe in my own home just because I no longer want to date them.

“No should mean no. Now I am left wondering how many men have my address and believe I want to be sexually assaulted, or worse.”

Cheshire Police said the victim met Hussain in April 2024 when he was using the fake name ‘Mick Renney’.

The pair went on a few dates but as the relationship developed he became “increasingly controlling”, and on 6 May that year, after she found he had taken her phone and read through her messages, she ended the relationship.

On that occasion Hussain followed her to the bathroom and said she could not have her phone without him being present, and when she tried to close the door he pushed his way in knocking her to the floor.

That was the last time she saw the man she knew as Renney – and she did not learn his real identity until after he was arrested.

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