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00:02I will probably know straight away, because I can see it in my mind.
00:07When I started asking him questions, he was angry.
00:12He said, I'm sick of all this, I'm sick of you questioning me.
00:16Come to my house and we will speak.
00:18And here's my address.
00:21I am gone. I am all guns blazing at this point.
00:24I'm going to this house. I'm gone.
00:29It's such a small town, it's affected Kilmarnock hugely,
00:32because everybody knows about it.
00:34He came out of nowhere.
00:36I was like, oh, who is this? How have we not come across this guy?
00:39But then I got a message from another girl from Kilmarnock.
00:42And she said, whatever you do, don't trust David Graham.
00:45He then became threatening.
00:48Either you speak to me or you're not going to like what's going to happen.
00:51I actually do remember, like, the adrenaline pumping.
00:55I'm really suspicious now.
00:56I kept saying to her, do not let him see you.
01:00We thought we were going to need to all band together here.
01:02It didn't add up at all.
01:04Is this, like, a kidnap attempt or is it money?
01:07Like, what is the end game for you?
01:08Something just rang alarm bells.
01:11Like, in my head, I'm thinking,
01:13Michael Myers is running around Crosshouse Hospital.
01:15I just thought, who is this psycho?
01:18Who the fuck is David Graham?
01:41Oh.
01:43Oh.
01:51Ah. Yeah, this looks familiar.
01:54Running through my head was all the lies.
01:57He might not be attractive, he might not be tall,
02:00he might not be successful, but I'm in love with him.
02:09And I was so desperate to see him at this point.
02:12Like, it was like a need and not a want.
02:16So we're looking over to the left and there was a trampoline
02:19in his back garden and I thought, it is his house.
02:23Look at me, Aunt TJ, look at me!
02:26It's a trampoline in the back garden, that's where Lily was.
02:29They walk up to the door and my legs are like jelly.
02:33I don't know who's going to be behind this door in this house.
02:36Probably the most nervous I'd ever been.
02:39There's like a dark shadow that walks past the window and I'm thinking,
02:43oh, that must be him, that must be him.
02:47Well, the door opens and I'm like gulping back sick by this point.
02:51I'm thinking, oh my God, help me.
02:54And the man opens the door and he's just so far from who I thought was going to open the
02:59door.
02:59And he's like, I don't know a David Graham hen, I've lived here all my life.
03:03And I'm just standing there in a housing estate looking for a guy that I've spoke to for six months
03:09and he's not here.
03:13So after we went to the house, he went radio silent.
03:18I feel as if I've lost them.
03:22Why are you not taking this as a sign that he's been caught out and he's not real?
03:27You just look past red flags because this isn't just like a guy that you text every day once or
03:33twice.
03:34This is from the morning you wake up to the very last word that you say at night.
03:42Because the alternative is admitting that, admitting that you were so vulnerable that you fell for all this.
03:52And you just don't want to admit that, you just don't want to.
03:56So you're just holding on to every single last hope.
04:01I feel as if I've invested so much love, time and effort into this guy that I am in love
04:08with this person.
04:09And I really, really need to find out who it is now.
04:24This little spot is in my kitchen.
04:27I don't know why I've automatically always came here any time something kind of stressful happens.
04:33Have you ever thought about getting any chairs in here?
04:35Nope. I don't know why.
04:37And there's like no chairs in my house.
04:40I'm such a floor person as well.
04:41I eat my dinner on the floor.
04:47So I'd been speaking to two girls from Kilmarnock who also knew David Graham.
04:51And we decided to then make a group chat called 007 to get to the bottom of who was behind
04:58David Graham.
05:00And why is this person doing it?
05:02I know that there's no David Graham working in the hospital or the ward.
05:06However, I've got a picture of a pager, an ID card that says that this person has access to that
05:13ward and my granddad is still in the hospital.
05:17It was scary.
05:20I think because I knew at the time that my granddad wasn't talking, my granddad couldn't really move.
05:25I'm thinking, what is this person doing to my granddad?
05:29Is this like freak just walking in and out of a hospital and he doesn't actually work there?
05:34What's this person got access to?
05:41All three of us were having so many different conversations.
05:44We were starting to think, is he a romance scammer?
05:47Scamming people out of money.
05:49Why did you think it might be money?
05:51Because I think that was quite a hot topic with David Graham as well, was talking about money.
05:57David was always doing something extravagant.
06:02He was living in this affluent area, he was driving a nice car.
06:07Always liked to boast and always liked to bring up money.
06:10So is he connecting with all these women to scam them out of money?
06:13Like, is this the reason behind all of this?
06:22He actually told me his daughter had died in the hospital and I didn't believe it.
06:26I was like, there's no way that that wee girl's died of cancer.
06:29So just thought, right, no more.
06:37And then I got a call from one of my friends, Kevin, and he asked if I was dating a
06:40David Graham.
06:41And I was like, no, I was like, why are you asking that?
06:44And he said that his friend Adele had said that her cousin was David Graham.
06:49Adele had seen on Facebook that her cousin had been commenting things and thought we were in a relationship.
06:55So then I unblocked David and asked why he was telling people that he was in a relationship with me.
07:02To which he responded straight away to say that he didn't and his cousin's just got the wrong end of
07:07the stick.
07:13A week or so later I had arranged to meet Kevin just for like lunch.
07:17Adele came and she's like, I'm Adele, I'm David's cousin, was kind of the first thing she'd said to me.
07:23She was bubbly, she was chatty, nicely dressed, she just seemed like a nice girl.
07:30She started asking questions, oh, have you not actually met each other yet?
07:34I think I'd said to her, no, I definitely won't be meeting him because he doesn't exist.
07:38But then she got very defensive, saying David's just going through a really hard time.
07:43So he did have a child that just died of cancer, but he really likes you.
07:46So he was very gutted that I don't want to meet up with him and things now.
07:51So what are you thinking at this point? Are you thinking, oh God, I've got this all wrong?
07:55And I remember just thinking at the point, no, I still don't think this guy is who he said he
07:58is.
07:59There's something strange here.
08:07So basically after I went for lunch, I remember him messaging me saying, why are you saying to my cousin,
08:11I don't exist.
08:13You don't believe my daughter's died, like basically making me as if I was sick in the head.
08:17Why would you think I'd make it up?
08:20But then I just literally cut it off.
08:23I heard no more for a good few weeks and then I got a message for like a random number.
08:28Just to let you know, David's been in a car crash, he's in hospital.
08:36When I tried to phone it, there was no answer.
08:40I don't know who the number was from, never answered it when I called it, never messaged back.
08:44Still to this day, I have no idea who the number was from.
08:47So then that's when I went on to Facebook.
08:53There's pictures of him in a hospital.
08:56So obviously you're thinking, right, what's going on here?
08:59David Graham was lying in a hospital bed and his friend was saying, come on David, you can pull through,
09:05we're all rooting for you.
09:08I started looking closer at the picture.
09:12I'm pretty sure the guy in the bed was just a different guy.
09:16So I started falling around hospitals.
09:18There's no David Graham in any hospital in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire and the surrounding areas.
09:24Do you ever hear from David again?
09:26No, but someone else calls me and it's his cousin screaming hysterically down the phone.
09:33Making me feel bad for not going to the hospital.
09:37Telling me that her little cousin is on his deathbed and he's asking for me.
09:43But I've phoned down all the hospitals.
09:45How am I supposed to get there if I don't know where I'm going?
09:47I'm trying to say, give me the address of the hospital and she's just shouting over me.
09:53How do you leave that conversation?
09:55I think I got hung up on.
09:57She wasn't listening.
09:58And then she just hung up on me.
10:10In the 007 group chat, one of the girls in the chat knows a girl called Adele.
10:15And Adele's so far the only person that we know that's ever spoke to David.
10:22One of the girls in the group mentioned that when David Graham was on holiday in Marbella,
10:27he phoned her and they were having a conversation and then he passes the phone over to Adele.
10:33And then Adele's having a nice conversation and then passes the phone back to David.
10:39So we could pin Adele and David in the same place at the same time.
10:44I didn't know who Adele was, but she's a girl from Kilmarnock and she's the same age as all of
10:48us.
10:49There's a strong connection in the group.
10:52One of the girls had been in nights out with Adele, like they've got friends in common.
10:58So we kind of need to look into her.
11:06Is it possible in your mind that he wasn't a doctor?
11:09I don't think I ever questioned his occupation, but I did start thinking like, are you who you say you
11:15are?
11:19So by this time, my friends, family, me, we were all investigating, trying to find out basically who David is.
11:26A few weeks previous, David had sent me a picture of a parking ticket and it was on a windscreen.
11:32In the distance, you could see there was a building and it says Department of Pathology.
11:38And at that point, I was like, that's it. Like, that is where David parks his car.
11:44Yeah, so see here, probably at this point, we would have been like, oh my God, this is it.
11:47We know the location, we know the car, we know the Reggie, we know everything.
11:52So we're like, right, this is our moment we've been waiting for.
11:55We're going to find out who the hell this is.
11:58I was on the phone to David and he says that he was starting at nine o'clock and I
12:02was like, fantastic.
12:03My mum's sister at this point says they didn't want me to go by myself because it wouldn't be safe.
12:07So they said, we'll come with you.
12:09Oh, no wonder, is there a building gone there now?
12:12They've knocked down a building behind me, so that's where the Department of Pathology sign was.
12:16So basically, we parked, see at the very back there, there was cars parked all the way down here,
12:22in front of us, so it wasn't obvious that we were sat up there.
12:26I'm on the phone to David the whole time, literally laid down in the back seat.
12:30And then all of a sudden, we see a car coming round.
12:34It's the red Corsa from my mum's house.
12:37He's saying, that's me just arrived at work.
12:39And I'm thinking, I know it is because I can see you, you've arrived.
12:42And then we see the car pulling up, engine turns off and the lights turn off.
12:47And David says, oh, that's me pulled up, you know, a long shift and that kind of stuff.
12:52So the door opens and someone steps out.
12:54It was dark, so we can't see who it was, just a shadow.
12:58So I'm, like I said, crouched down, I'm talking.
13:00I then hang up the phone to see the reaction of the person that we're watching.
13:04They drop the phone, then I re-ring them back.
13:08The person picks up the phone, turns round.
13:11It's a woman.
13:41What? Like, no.
13:43My God, like, what the hell?
13:45I would never have ever thought that this was David.
13:49Not the girl who'd been delivering all these things to me, who, you know, I was inviting
13:54in for, like, a cup of tea, who I drove home.
13:58Like, I can't believe that I was sat next to her and chatting to her.
14:03You know, like, I could literally go out and touch her arm.
14:07I then went on to David's Facebook.
14:10I couldn't find her anywhere.
14:12I then looked up the name of the shop.
14:16Couldn't find that either.
14:17There's absolutely no evidence at all that this girl exists anywhere.
14:24I got in contact with my friend, Kevin, and I said, listen, give me that Adele's number.
14:29He sent me Adele's number.
14:31I put it on my phone, and I had already had a contact with the same number, and the contact
14:38was David Graham.
14:42David Graham and Adele both had the same phone number.
14:48I then went on to Facebook, typed her name in, typed in enter, and then her picture came up.
14:59And I was like, holy fuck.
15:01She works on my granddad's ward as a nurse.
15:08Like, she's the person looking after my granddad right now.
15:15Like, I actually can't even believe it. Why am I crying?
15:20I don't know, because I remember looking at it and being in such disbelief, because I'm like,
15:26there's no way that's who they're talking about.
15:31I was totally shocked, but I don't understand it, because it is a guy's voice on the phone.
15:37It was weird. So I'm talking to a man, and this woman, and I'm like, I'm talking to you.
15:44Like, you're a man on my phone, but you're a woman crossing the road.
15:48Hi, sorry, I'm driving.
15:50Yes.
15:52I'm also texting.
15:54Oh my god, that is him!
15:56But, is that you impalming me off already?
15:58She was using the voice changer now.
16:01No, I was not saying you were fat.
16:06However, it's good to get the steps in.
16:09That's what I was saying.
16:10Ah, that is the voice, yeah.
16:13That's his, that's, that was David Graham.
16:15Because you had spoken to David and spoken to Adele, the voices weren't the same?
16:20No, not, the voices were nowhere near the same. It was a guy and a woman. Adele was a woman,
16:24David was a guy. The voices didn't even sound remotely the same. And not for one thing
16:28does I think it's a voice changer that, because you just don't think that these things exist.
16:32And I'm just like, this is wild, and I can't believe this person is actually going
16:35into a hospital, because you could clearly see she was dressed as if she was going to work.
16:42I'm actually getting goosebumps just now, even just thinking about it, like when she was walking
16:45over the road, just starting her shift. This person, who's of a good profession,
16:50is doing this? Why is she doing this? Like, what is the reason behind it?
16:58Because she actually did work in the hospital, and I seen her side by side with my granddad,
17:02it was just quite sickening. Like, that's someone we put our trust into. It was terrifying, to be honest.
17:10You know fine well what I'm going through, and you still thought that that was okay. Like, who does that?
17:20But who actually does that?
17:23You might only think, oh, six months of your life is nothing. But six months when you're 23,
17:30and you're trying to figure out your head, it was soul destroying.
17:35It goes to show that you just can't trust. Trust people, basically.
17:40I feel disgusted in myself for falling for something like that. And this is who it is, it's Adele Rennie.
17:54As soon as I found out that it was Adele, I went straight back to the chat. I was like,
18:00holy shit, like, she works on my granddad's ward.
18:06That ward in particular, it is a very vulnerable ward. I mean, if you really wanted to take advantage
18:12of people, like, that would be the best ward to do it in. I just thought I didn't want it
18:17to work in
18:17hospital, taking care of my granddad. But my main thing was for it to stop. So I phoned the hospital
18:24straight away. I said, listen, I said, you've got someone in your ward called Adele Rennie. I said,
18:30and she's pretending to be a male doctor.
18:34I just phoned the hospital again, and the woman on the ward does not believe a thing I am saying.
18:40I remember her saying, is this some sort of vendetta you've got against Adele?
18:45I was like, listen, I will be going to the police. And I was like, no, trace the number
18:49back to Adele. And she went ballistic, absolutely ballistic.
18:56I felt like I had no control of the situation. Like, my granddad was still in there.
19:00I've got someone saying that I've got some sort of vendetta. I've got Adele, is she off today?
19:04Is she working today? Like, where is she? I think I just kept saying to myself,
19:07we just need to find more proof. There just needs to be more. We need more.
19:14It was only a matter of time before Adele caught on. We knew, like, all she needs to do is
19:19either
19:20block us or completely delete the profile and then that's it. Like, we don't have anything to go on.
19:26So it was pretty much like a race against time.
19:30We just had to, like, screenshot everything, write things down. Like, the more evidence, the better.
19:35So when I started looking deeper into David Graham's Facebook, then I start noticing it was always the
19:40same people commenting on these things. And then I started asking myself, well, are they real?
19:45We would reverse image search. So you can put an image into Google and find out where it came from.
19:50And we found these profiles that actually have been stolen from Instagram. Like, there was a web of
19:55people. So you've got, like, David here. And then you've got all these profiles validating that David's a real person.
20:00But it's all Adele. So we screenshot the other profiles as well. Time went so fast and I didn't sleep.
20:12Like, I was sitting on my phone looking for things and my laptop. And it was, like, before I knew
20:17it,
20:17we were on to, like, 5, 6 in the morning and then I'd have a quick sleep and then I'd
20:20wake back up again.
20:21Like, I was consumed by it all.
20:27That period of time you're not sleeping, you're not eating, like, why did it take over?
20:31I think because it involved my granddad. And the only way I'm going to be able to get Adele
20:36into trouble for it is if I come up with all this information.
20:42Once we kind of start noticing that all these profiles are, like, definitely fake,
20:46we realised this was a full-scale operation. I knew I just really had to get the police involved.
20:58It was obvious it was Adele Rene. I was really, really optimistic. Like,
21:03we're just going to go straight to the police and they're going to arrest her and that's going to be
21:06it.
21:10I was in the police station for about four or five hours.
21:16There was, like, so many intricate details and I just kind of sat and tried to give them as much
21:21information as possible. Any screenshots that me and the girls had sent each other in the chat
21:26and stuff to, like, prove that we knew it was her.
21:31They couldn't actually get their head round it. It was actually very, very frustrating.
21:35Their words to me were, well, she's not done anything criminal.
21:39Like, apart from maybe data protection, like, she's not really done anything.
21:44Catfishing's not a crime.
21:46And I was kind of like, right, OK, so this is, like, normal behaviour then. Like,
21:50we've just accept that.
21:52I just thought, why are you allowed to do that? Like, why are you allowed to pretend that you're
21:55someone else?
21:58Especially when you're in a job of power. Like, surely that's not allowed.
22:04When I first heard about the Adele Rene case,
22:07I think the most surprising element is how long it went on for.
22:14What we call catfishing, creating those fake identities, using those identities to contact,
22:20follow victims, isn't a legal term. It's a term that has become really popular in the media.
22:27And if you walk down to a police station and you say, I've met this person on a dating platform.
22:34We've been in the early stages of a relationship, but something's not right.
22:38It's almost impossible that the police are going to take that case on, because what's the crime?
22:45The minute you say they've stolen £1,000, there's a really clear pathway. It's fraud.
22:52We can investigate that. We can follow the money. But in these cases, that's not true.
22:58The motives are unclear, unknown.
23:02And so when a victim is forced to investigate their own crime and try and build that evidence,
23:09forcing more interaction with the perpetrator, the risk for the victim just gets higher and higher.
23:21Because I felt like I wasn't getting taken seriously.
23:23I put a post on Facebook just basically warning everybody, saying if you've got David Graham as a friend on
23:30Facebook,
23:31get them deleted now before you get scammed.
23:33He's not a real person. It's actually a girl called Adele Rennie.
23:41I didn't expect my inbox to then start going ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping.
23:47And that just one day, it was floods and floods and floods of messages coming through.
23:52People that had all been through similar stuff, like even worse.
23:58It was actually quite overwhelming because it wasn't even just females that I was getting messages from.
24:02I was getting messages from people's boyfriends, saying like, my girlfriend's been through this.
24:07How do you know that it's this girl? Because we've been trying to prove this for ages.
24:12If I was like, wow, like this is bigger than what I thought it was going to be.
24:16Like I genuinely didn't think it was going to be as big as what it was.
24:18What do you think Adele's motivations are at this point?
24:22I think at the time I was just so confused, because before I think it was just really easy
24:27for us to just assume that if you're able to buy all these people gifts,
24:31is this because you're scamming people out of money?
24:34Have you ever seen any evidence that she took money off anyone?
24:39Evidence? No.
24:41Did he ever ask you for money?
24:43No.
24:45David Graham wasn't asking me for money.
24:47It was just making up a string of lies.
24:49That's why I for a long time thought this must be real,
24:53because I was sending no gifts to him. It was all one way.
24:57The only thing at that time I could think of why she was doing it
25:01was because she wasn't comfortable with her sexuality
25:03and she would rather be with girls.
25:06Did you get a sense the person behind the phone was sexually attracted to you?
25:10Yeah, I definitely thought he was sexually attracted to me.
25:13The phone calls and messages, I definitely would have thought that, yeah.
25:17Once we discovered who it was, it was a case of, well,
25:19you're basically only talking to females.
25:22So we just assumed that she was maybe someone that isn't confident about coming out.
25:27But when you then went deeper into it, that almost didn't make sense.
25:32Like, that couldn't just be the motivation, there must have been more to it.
25:39I then get a phone call from the police and that was me kind of thinking,
25:42oh, like, I'm getting some sort of update.
25:44And it wasn't, it was basically to say that Adele had filed some sort of harassment order against me.
25:50I was really surprised.
25:53So she's logged onto Facebook.
25:54She's seen that you're sort of outing her on Facebook.
25:57Yeah.
25:58At this full moment, it wasn't really getting taken seriously.
26:01It was more my reaction that was getting taken seriously rather than the action of her.
26:06That was her then kind of, like, reverse note on me.
26:16I was kind of like, shit, like, this girl's dangerous.
26:20Like, she's so willing to go to the police about me knowing that she's in the wrong.
26:24Like, what else is she going to try and pin on me?
26:26Is she going to try and say that I'm David Graham?
26:29And I think I got even more scared at that point.
26:32I was like, what's she going to do next?
27:00So it was quite annoying to hear that she'd just been interviewed and let go.
27:04And again, it was like, well, that's it.
27:08Like, we're just going to need to be happy with this.
27:11But she's been warned.
27:14We noticed that on Facebook, David's profile had completely disappeared.
27:20And then, obviously, we'd warned quite a few people in Kilmarnock about this happening.
27:24It's not, like, that big a town, so she'd be stupid to try and do it again,
27:28because we're all going to know it's her.
27:32However, Grandad is still in the hospital.
27:39Bought a dog, and I used to take the dog in to see my Grandad as well.
27:46And he was just sitting like this the full time.
27:52The hospital said, like, it's going to happen quite soon.
27:55So I went and visited, and then he died in the night.
28:03Obviously, it's like shit in general, but I think it was just like a pure kick in the teeth,
28:08because all that time and effort with Adele, it consumed, like, months where I should have
28:17probably been spending more time with him.
28:22But I did think to myself, at least she's stopped.
28:26Adele's not going to be catfishing anyone else.
28:39I think as soon as Tinder came out, everyone was on it.
28:46It was just exciting to meet people from your phone.
28:51You didn't need to go to bars, you didn't need to go out and socialise,
28:55and wait on people coming up to you.
28:57It seemed to make you quite picky.
28:59Very.
29:02It makes you almost on a pedestal that you can just judge these people.
29:06I would swipe left on short men, because I liked someone tall.
29:11Men under 5'9 are called friends.
29:12That's what's on my profile.
29:14You were swiping people you knew to start with,
29:16and then you were putting your distance out a wee bit,
29:19and there was all these fresh faces from other areas that you never would have came across.
29:29When I saw that profile, I thought he was very good looking.
29:32Coming across like he had a bit of a life.
29:35To be a doctor, you need to be a certain person, like you care about people.
29:41So I swiped right, and it came up a match.
29:46I was like, ooh.
29:47Like, because it's always a nice feeling if you find someone attractive,
29:50and they also find you attractive as well.
29:52He was different to other people, because I hadn't actually opened up about my personal life
29:57to other people I'd spoken to.
30:00I was 24.
30:01My mother got diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder, so she needed care.
30:08It was a really difficult time.
30:10I was basically giving up my job to look after my mum.
30:14I just felt like he understood.
30:17He would say, of course, your mum's your biggest priority.
30:21Like, my family's my biggest priority.
30:23He did just say the right things and made me feel special, really did.
30:34Does the name David Graham mean anything to you?
30:37No.
30:38And who was it that you were speaking to?
30:40Matthew Mancini.
31:08A lot of people will judge, and I don't want to be one of those people that are judged for
31:12what I believe was a pretty dark time in my life.
31:18Matthew Mancini was very, very charming.
31:22Flowers were sent.
31:23Bottles of wine were sent.
31:26He knew what to say, when to say it, and how to bring you in.
31:39Was he quite flirty on text?
31:40I would say the flirtiness didn't start straight away.
31:43I would say it was just more respectful.
31:46But then Matthew consistently asked for explicit nude photos.
31:52I declined to send any sort of photos to him.
31:56And he sent me a link.
32:03It was to a porn website.
32:06I'll just have to use this then if you're not going to help me out.
32:10That's when it started to get quite abusive and quite nasty.
32:25We had arranged to meet up and go to the Christmas market.
32:29Did you think you were looking forward to it?
32:31Yeah, definitely.
32:32It just seemed like it was the right time to meet someone, meet them face to face.
32:37And then he sent me a picture of the Christmas tree that him and his nephew had been decorating.
32:43And I'm quite observant.
32:45I always look at all the details to see what someone's house is like.
32:48I love interiors.
32:50And I questioned why it was a completely different living room to the one that he sent me a few
32:55days before.
32:57And he got quite defensive and said it was a different part of the house.
33:00And I was just like, you're lying.
33:02And I just felt sick.
33:05Like, who is this person?
33:07It was enough for me just to block.
33:12And then I got bombarded with calls from a withheld number.
33:18I had honestly about 60 missed calls the first day.
33:22Missed call from no caller ID, missed call from no caller ID.
33:25I had so many missed calls and my voicemail was full.
33:28It wasn't like the friendly voice anymore.
33:31It was angry, frustrated, threatening.
33:34Just answer your phone. Just answer your phone.
33:37He could not accept that I'd been caught out.
33:50But then I get a message from someone I know on Facebook.
33:54There's a brand new profile.
33:56He's got the same picture.
33:58He's got the same profession, but a different name.
34:03Matthew Mancini.
34:05And I'm like, shut the front door.
34:07Like, am I going to need to go through all this again?
34:10It worked out that Adele had started using Tinder and she's contacted a brand new set of victims.
34:17When you're catfishing on Facebook, you've got to have friends and family to make yourself more, like, realistic.
34:24But as soon as Tinder came around, it made things for Adele a lot easier.
34:27Because you didn't need to prove who she was or who she was friends with.
34:31And she could get in contact with people even further afield.
34:36But there was definitely new things where I was like, hmm, like, you're a bit nastier and you're willing to
34:41put people down.
34:42So that's when I realised that it wasn't just happening again, but it was actually getting worse.
34:47Is there anything going to stop this girl?
34:53So at this point, I had spoke to police. I had spoke to a hospital. I had spoke to all
34:58these people.
34:59And I'm like, well, if you're not going to believe me, I know who will believe me.
35:10A year into working at the Scottish Sun, roughly, I spoke to Arby Draper.
35:14I instinctively knew that this was a big story.
35:19This is a dictaphone recording of my first ever interview with Arby.
35:23I had a message on Facebook.
35:25And she told me everything that happened to her.
35:28And I barely got a word in because Arby was so keen to tell me everything that had happened.
35:34Straight away, it ticked all the boxes for a good tabloid story.
35:40There was so much on social media.
35:43And there was something that just drew you in towards this character.
36:07There was a Jekyll and Hyde side to Adele Rennie going on.
36:20I'm pissed, Hick.
36:23She looks like she loves her night out.
36:25And people were obviously quite happy to be in her company.
36:29And some of the women that I spoke to did say that she was great fun.
36:32There's not a hint of anything sinister about her at all.
36:35So there was a mystery around what was actually motivating Adele Rennie to carry out this pattern of behaviour.
36:43So the goal was obviously to get the story out there, but I also thought with the power of the
36:49media, more victims could come forward.
36:52So I'm thinking if maybe 10 to 20 women are going to the police and then we're all complaining about
36:58the same person, then surely the police are going to arrest her straight away.
37:04But at that point, I didn't even know myself, like, how bad what she done was.
37:18The relationship with Matthew turned toxic.
37:23He puts me down, makes me feel small.
37:26My opinions are unvalid.
37:28I'm lying and I'm going crazy.
37:33Messages started to get really nasty.
37:35I'm trying to find out, sent a photo of his excrement, which is so disturbing and disgusting to me.
37:45I feel like he was trying to play a game, but it was a game of him having full control
37:50and fully enjoyed it.
37:53He would message, like, where are you?
37:56What time will you be finished dinner?
37:58When are you finishing work?
37:59When do you start work?
38:02There was numerous times that I felt like he was there watching or there wherever I was numerous times.
38:12You would always feel they'd be asking that because he's wanting to watch.
38:16He's wanting to see where I am.
38:19And at that point, I thought something's not right.
38:23I didn't realise that she was physically going to places.
38:28Speaking to, like, other victims, they were saying, like, oh, she sent me a picture of outside my work ones.
38:33They keep sending me all these different presents.
38:37Most people have called Adele a catfisher. Do you feel like that's accurate?
38:42I think Adele is a stalker and I think she has used a range of different ways to carry out
38:49her stalking.
38:51One of those ways is through what we call catfishing.
38:54And so she's a stalker who is using all means at her disposal to stalk her victims.
38:59Obviously, flowers where I lived with my parents at the time.
39:02To me, Alain Bell rang because I didn't give him my address.
39:07It became a point where he started getting a bit more obsessive.
39:10And then that's then when I started getting texts basically saying where he knew where I was.
39:16That freaked me out.
39:19As the victims become aware that something's wrong, Adele's behaviour changes and becomes much more physical.
39:27It becomes following, turning up, delivering gifts.
39:31And that behaviour is inherently more risky.
39:36Once more people had came to me and then I started realising that
39:40Adele was actually going to their workplaces or she was going to their house and doing stuff,
39:44I was kind of like, right, well, you need to go to the police because that's stalking.
39:50And then I started thinking, so she's been sitting outside my house.
39:54She knew what my blinds looked like.
39:56And I was like, did she hand-deliver my flowers?
39:59You see, we would have stopped in, like, something like that and then seen a trampoline.
40:06And then I was like, that's a stalker.
40:09Oh, my God.
40:10And when we drove to his house, he'd never turned up.
40:16Are you thinking, why did she bring me to this area?
40:20Because this is actually where Adele lived.
40:23The show.
40:23Shut up.
40:28Oh, my God, I've got actual tingles.
40:31You're kidding.
40:39I just thought she gave me just a random address.
40:42And she was probably watching me without me knowing it.
40:46I feel sick.
40:48She saved them that bit.
40:53You sent me to the area and the place that you live, but you gave me a wrong address.
41:00It's like to watch me squeal.
41:03It's like sending a mouse to a mouse trap.
41:13I didn't really feel angry.
41:15I just felt pity for her, like.
41:18And now I feel rage and anger and disgust.
41:25Adele was there.
41:26Adele was watching me.
41:28The whole time she was doing this to me and the others.
41:32This is not just someone behind, like, their keyboard and
41:36pranking or winding someone up.
41:38This is someone that's taking it to extreme measures.
41:41She's not a catfish.
41:42She's just a monster.
41:50There's no doubt that Adele has the potential to be dangerous.
41:56The offences that happened away from the internet show that there was potentially a much more sinister
42:05person at play here.
42:13It would have become clear to Adele that her job was potentially on the line.
42:19And she then seemed to turn her attention to a senior employee, a charge nurse who also worked at Crosshouse
42:28Hospital.
42:29Adele allegedly pursued the charge nurse in her car, drove up very close behind her, flashed her lights.
42:35She was weaving in and out of traffic and subjected that woman to quite a frightening ordeal.
42:41It was obviously an act of intimidation.
42:50That would scare the living daylights out of you because you'd think,
42:53that person's capable of doing that, that person's going to be capable of doing a lot worse.
42:58Like, this girl doesn't stop, what's she going to do next?
43:01And I'm like, literally batting down the hatches, waiting for Adele to escalate.
43:11Every time I stopped the car, it was like a 360 check.
43:15Making sure the doors were locked, actually putting like hoovers against the door.
43:20Never in a million years could have imagined that I was about to walk into two detectives sitting on the
43:26couch.
43:27I dropped what I was doing and I just went straight down to Kilmarnock Sheriff Court.
43:31You don't want to believe that your child's capable of these kind of things.
43:37Why? Why would you do this?
44:05And now that man says that I may still want to wait for them,
44:06It's a nerve which is long.
44:06I'm just looking at the police station in the questioning field.
44:07I'm not looking for the police station right now.
44:08Downward Downward Downward Downward Downward Downward
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