Adele Rennie: ‘Manipulative’ catfish jailed after posing as man to stalk Tinder match, Rennie returned to the dock on Friday and was jailed for 28 months and made subject to a year-long supervised release order. Nurse Rennie, is Scary, and Dangerous.

Adele Rennie posed as a male pharmacist when she matched with a woman on Tinder. Rennie had previously been jailed in 2017

and 2019 for similar stalking crimes involving women.

A former nurse who used a voice-changing app to sound like a man during a stalking campaign has been jailed for 28 months.

Adele Rennie, 33, posed as a male pharmacist when she matched with a woman on dating platform Tinder in August 2023.The pair exchanged mobile phone numbers, with Rennie later arranging to have flowers delivered to the victim’s home address, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said.

When Rennie pulled out of a date at the last minute, the woman believed the Tinder account was a “catfish”.

It was Rennie’s third catfishing scam.The police were called, and Rennie’s home was searched in November 2023.

A mobile phone was examined which revealed an email address with the name of the “man” and searches for the victim in the internet history.

The police also found a photograph matching the fake male profile and recovered several bank cards that had not been declared in accordance with Rennie’s sex offender notification requirement.

Rennie had previously been jailed in 2017 and 2019 for similar crimes involving women.