Stalker who used fake Tinder profile to lure men to ex’s home jailed for eight years

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. …