A man has been jailed for eight years after he set up a fake Tinder profile for his ex-partner and enticed multiple men to her house with the intention of raping her.
Asad Hussain, 36, also known as Ash Hussain, 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, who called himself “Mick Renney” in April 2024, before ending the relationship at the start of May when she woke to find he had been through her phone. He made multiple attempts to rekindle their relationship, which she refused.
In late July the same year, several men began turning up at her house, saying they had matched with her on the dating app, and believing she had invited them round.
On one night in August, four different men came to her house, all saying they had received almost identical messages.
Other men who turned up at her home told her they had received messages saying she wanted to engage in a “rape fantasy” and wanted to be “roughed up”. The men said they had been led to believe that if she said “no” it meant she “wanted it more”.
In September as she went to answer her door after the doorbell rang, a man shoved the door causing a glass panel to smash, the court was told.
The man then showed her messages from the fake Tinder account telling him that the front door was open for him and that he should “shove” the door as it was “stiff”.
Later that day, while she was at work, another man came into the house while her teenage daughter was upstairs alone, before leaving without incident.
In statements to police the men described having matched with the woman on Tinder, and then been quickly invited round and given her address and phone number.
At least 18 men are believed to have been deceived into going to her house, although the true number remains unknown.
In a statement the victim said the sentence would “bring me some peace over the coming months”. However, she added: “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. 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.”
The investigating officer, PC Keith Terrill, said the stalking case was “one of the most technically complex and disturbing” Cheshire constabulary had ever investigated. “Asad Hussain is an exceptionally controlling and deceitful individual who went to extreme lengths to cause fear and distress to the victim and her children,” he said.
He added: “The impact on the victim and her family has been devastating. I hope that today’s sentence brings them some closure and allows them to begin rebuilding their lives.”
