Stalker jailed over fake 'rape fantasy' Tinder profile in ex's name
A stalker who set up a fake Tinder profile in his ex-girlfriend's name to entice multiple men to her home by saying she wanted to take part in a 'rape fantasy' has been jailed for eight years.
'Controlling and deceitful' businessman Asad Hussain, 36, exacted cruel revenge after the woman ended their brief relationship over his controlling behaviour.
Weeks later, four men turned up at the terrified victim's home one after another on a single night, claiming she had sent them messages on the dating app saying she wanted to be 'roughed up' before having sex.
They had been told that if she said ‘no’, it meant that she ‘wanted it more’.
As many as 35 men were duped into travelling to her house before police tracked Hussain down.
One even went inside while her teenage daughter was home alone as the mother was at work.
Hussain told the woman his name was Mick Renney.
But detectives were able to trace his true identity via the numberplate of his Audi R8 sports car from footage taken by her doorbell camera, and he was stopped while driving on a motorway and arrested.
Stalker Asad Hussain - who told the victim his name was Mick Renney - was caught after the numberplate of his Audi R8 sports car was picked up on the woman's doorbell camera
Asad Hussain, 36, (pictured) cruelly lured men to his ex-girlfriend's house by setting up a fake profile in her name on dating app Tinder saying that she wanted to engage in a ‘rape fantasy’ and be ‘roughed up’
After being convicted of stalking and assault, Hussain was today jailed for eight years at Chester Crown Court.
The anonymous victim said Hussain had ‘lied from day one’, adding that the ‘terrifying ordeal’ had ‘shattered’ her family.
She now feels ‘constantly’ in danger, ‘wondering who is going to knock on the door next’, she told the court.
As a result she has installed ‘extensive’ security measures including a six-foot gate and CCTV, the court heard.
‘My home has been violated,’ she said in a statement read out by prosecution barrister Jemma Gordon.
‘He created a fictional narrative that put my life at risk.
‘There are so many men out there who were told that I want them to enter my home and harm me.
‘What happens if I come across one of them?
On one occasion, Hussain (pictured) went to the woman's house because she had a male friend round and repeatedly rang her doorbell for two hours
Asad Hussain was arrested on October 6, 2024 after officers from Cumbria Police sighted his van on a motorway, but continued to deny having posed as Mick Renney to stalk the woman
‘I am permanently anxious and scared and nowhere feels safe. It is a pure miracle that I was not harmed but I still have mental scars.’
The victim went on several dates with 'Renney' in April 2024 after he contacted her on social media.
But as the relationship developed, Hussain became increasingly controlling.
On one occasion he went to her house because she had a male friend round and repeatedly rang her doorbell for two hours, only leaving after a neighbour called the police.
The relationship came to an end on May 6, 2024 when she awoke to find Hussain had taken her mobile phone and read through her messages to male colleagues and friends.
He then bombarded her with questions, demanding to know if she was seeing other men.
When she tried to take her phone into the bathroom he told her she could not have it unless he was present, forcing his way inside to grab the handset, causing her to fall.
Hussain subsequently contacted her daughter and friends, accusing her of cheating on him, before making numerous attempts to rekindle their relationship which she refused.
Then in late July 2024, multiple men began attending her home address saying they’d matched with her on the dating app Tinder and she had invited them round.
On one night in August 2024, four men attended her address one after another, all reporting having received almost identical messages.
Other men who turned up at her home shared messages in which she had apparently said she wanted to engage in a ‘rape fantasy’ and wanted to be ‘roughed up’.
They said they had been led to believe that if she said ‘no’ it meant she ‘wanted it more’.
The following month she went to answer her door after the doorbell rang, only for a man to shove the door, causing a glass panel to smash.
He showed her messages from the fake Tinder account telling him that the front door was open for him and that he should give it a ‘shove’ as it was ‘stiff’.
Later that day, she was out at work when another man attended and managed to enter her house while her teenage daughter was upstairs alone.
He remained inside for several minutes before leaving without incident.
Many of the men gave the victim their details after she explained they had been duped so they could help with any police investigation.
All later described matching with who they believed to be her on Tinder, before quickly being invited round to her address and given her phone number.
When they arrived, they were asked questions regarding what cars were parked outside.
They were then told that she was waiting in her conservatory for them and instructed to enter her address.
At least 18 men are believed to have been deceived into attending her address. The true number however remains unknown.
After she contacted police, they identified that the car ‘Renney’ drove was registered to Hussain and insured to his plumbing and gas business.
They were able to confirm that he was the man caught on her doorbell camera.
Detectives also established that he had changed his car registration and used separate dedicated mobile phones for his alter ego and to set up the fake profile in her name.
After learning police were investigating him, Hussain discarded the phone, factory reset his personal devices and attempted to have his details removed from Companies House.
He was arrested on October 6, 2024 after officers from Cumbria Police sighted his van on the M6.
In interview, Hussain denied being ‘Mick Renney’ and repeatedly denied knowing the victim or having ever been to her address.
He denied any knowledge of the fake Tinder accounts, or using any form of social media or dating app.
He claimed that his car in the victim’s video doorbell footage was part of a classic car rental service his business was trialling.
Hussain also lied that on the day he had assaulted the victim he had been working at a supermarket.
Officers were able to disprove his account using CCTV, ANPR and phone data, discovering he had created multiple fake Tinder accounts pretending to be the victim.
They were able to prove that every time the Tinder accounts were active, Hussain had travelled from his home in Cheadle, Greater Manchester to her home area, parking in a nearby layby or staying at an industrial unit he rented.
Hussain even went as far as contacting the woman pretending to be a man who’d matched with one of the fake Tinder accounts he’d created.
In messages sent to her, he claimed to have attended her home address more than once and quizzed her on whether police had identified him and what officers had told her.
Hussain continued to deny any involvement in the offences or having ever met the victim.
But in May 2026 he was convicted of stalking involving serious alarm or distress, and assault by beating.
He was also found guilty of failing to comply with a notice requiring him to disclose passcodes for a mobile phone and iPad seized by police when he was arrested.
Hussain had no previous convictions other than one for failing to identify the driver for a speeding offence.
Judge Michael Leeming said Hussain had lured as many as 35 men to her home, branding him a ‘high risk … to any future partners’.
He also imposed a restraining order barring him from contacting the victim and her children for 15 years.
In a statement afterwards, the anonymous victim said she was 'grateful for the sentence' which would 'bring me some peace over the coming months'.
'However, no sentence takes away the enormous impact his behaviour has had on both myself and my daughters,' she added.
'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.'
She added that it was 'difficult to accept' that Hussain had 'never shown any remorse, never accepted responsibility'.
PC Keith Terrill, of Cheshire Police, said the sentence showed that the internet 'offers no sanctuary to those who wish to commit violence against women and girls'.
'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 added.
'At no point has he taken any responsibility for his actions.
'Hussain instead chose to repeatedly lie and hinder the investigation, before forcing the victim and witnesses to sit through a 9-day Crown Court trial.
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'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.'
