Britain’s most prolific female cyberstalker to be investigated in new ‘stranger-than-fiction’ BBC series

A NEW BBC programme is to analyse Britain's astir prolific pistillate cyberstalker.

BBC Three and BBC Scotland person commissioned the three-part existent crime series.

Titled The Catfish Next Door, it volition research the shocking lawsuit of British "catfish" Adele Rennie, a erstwhile NHS caregiver from Kilmarnock.

Rennie's serial cyberstalking saw her sentenced to a 3rd jailhouse word past year.

She had been revealed to beryllium down a drawstring of meticulously crafted aliases.

On September 13 past year, Adele Rennie was sentenced to 28 months' imprisonment and made taxable to a 12-month Supervised Release Order.

She was besides placed connected the Sex Offenders Register for a play of 10 years.

Over the people of a decade, Rennie targeted a fig of section women by utilizing blase stalking campaigns.

Although these each began online, they had far-reaching consequences for the victims.

Speaking astatine Rennie's archetypal court proceedings successful 2017, Sheriff Elizabeth McFarlane declared the lawsuit arsenic “the astir astounding communicative of facts I deliberation I’ve heard successful my full career”.

Her communicative features hundreds of alleged victims and aggregate aliases - each from the unlikeliest of perpetrators.

In addition, galore victims volition stock their acquisition arsenic they grapple with the lasting impact.

The bid examines a cyberstalker's information to offend and the thrust down escalating crimes.

As good arsenic this, wherefore there’s been specified a stark summation successful “catfishing” – a signifier inactive not considered a crime nether UK law.

Clare Sillery, Head of Commissioning, Documentaries, said: “This bid volition instrumentality america into the modern improvement of catfishing and net crime successful a caller and creatively distinctive mode and done the prism of the Scottish assemblage successful which it takes place.”

Meanwhile, Louise Thornton, Head of Commissioning, BBC Scotland remarked: “This is simply a singular communicative which volition intrigue and fascinate audiences.

"The standard and interaction of this crime and its twists and turns volition marque compelling viewing.”

Craig Hunter, Executive Producer and Creative Director of STV Studios Factual, described the lawsuit "truly astonishing".

He added: "Behind the headlines lies a analyzable and thought-provoking communicative that speaks volumes astir the quality of cybercrime – however rapidly it has evolved; the profound interaction it tin person connected victims; and what it tells america astir modern society.”