Sinister stalker told police I’d killed my kids & bombarded me with rape threats every 4 SECONDS…before horrifying twist

HEARING a pounding connected her beforehand door, mum Megan Brailsford opened to find the constabulary connected her doorstep for the 4th clip that week - this clip flanked by equipped cops.

The loving mum-of-two, from Peterborough, Cambs, had been accused of sidesplitting her children by an anonymous caller to the section unit - amid a terrifying stalking run that lasted 4 months.

Megan, 31, was bombarded with decease threats and rape threats - astatine 1 constituent each 4 seconds - and had taxis ordered to her location astatine each times of the time and nighttime for 4 months.

Ex-partner Dan Dugdale, who was inactive surviving successful her house, had besides been reporting vile messages from the anonymous stalker.

In an exclusive chat, Megan told The Sun: “He made my beingness hell. I became a recluse due to the fact that I was excessively frightened to spell out. I couldn't locomotion the dogs connected my own. I couldn't truly spell anyplace without different adult. 

“Taking the kids to schoolhouse and going to enactment was frightening. I mislaid friends due to the fact that I became paranoid arsenic to who was doing it to me.

“It near maine feeling wholly insane by the mediate of it all.”

The terrifying ordeal for the veterinary caregiver has been caught connected camera by Channel 4’s 24 Hours successful Police Custody - including the galore visits cops made to her location implicit reports she had murdered her children oregon ex Dan. 

Murder confessions

The mates met successful the municipality quadrate successful Peterborough, which is wherever Dan asked her retired connected a date.

Megan's mum Lisa said: "He seemed blessed and bouncy, similar an overgrown puppy."

But Megan was unsure astir seeing Dan until her mum persuaded her to springiness him a chance.

The brace dated for astir six months earlier helium moved successful with Megan and her 2 children, a lad aged 11 astatine the clip and a girl aged seven.

Lisa told The Sun: "I consciousness hugely blameworthy for what happened to her due to the fact that I suggested she springiness him a chance.

"They seemed good from the extracurricular but things weren't great. He cheated connected her and determination had been abuse.

"But erstwhile they broke up, she tried to beryllium benignant and fto him slumber connected her sofa until helium recovered somewhere.

"She didn't archer maine astir the messages she was getting for a agelong time."

Initially, Megan assumed the chilling texts were from a prankster that Dan had annoyed, who would soon get bored.

The messages started disconnected with things similar “I’m watching you” and “That’s a bully dog. Shame if it got hurt,” earlier progressing into hoax execution reports to the cops.

Random radical were messaged connected Snapchat and Facebook from the stalker, pretending to beryllium Megan confessing to sidesplitting her children and asking for them to telephone the cops. 

There were besides calls to Social Services claiming she was a enactment idiosyncratic and took drugs astir her kids.

Things past became much sinister and Megan received messages saying “Megan are you acceptable to die?”, “I wouldn’t rape you, you’ll beryllium begging for it” and “can I termination you, your kids would beryllium amended disconnected without you”.

She was besides sent videos of bestiality, pornography and photos of mutilated dogs that looked similar the ones she owned. 

Megan besides had to woody with taxis turning up astatine her doorway time and night, booked successful her sanction and connected her credit card.

“I was getting nary slumber astatine night, possibly 2 hours astatine most,” she said. 

“That was due to the fact that of each the messages, constabulary perpetually being called retired to my location and the taxis that would crook up. 

“I’d enactment up truly late, anxious that the constabulary would crook up. I started sleeping successful my kitchen.

“I had to transportation a panic alarm with me, arsenic did my children, truthful I had to explicate it to them successful a mode that didn’t permission them frightened. 

“I was exhausted.”

Suicidal thoughts

As the tirade of maltreatment ramped up, Megan struggled to header and her mum recovered her astatine 1 of her lowest points.

"She had nary beingness and 1 time I went circular and fto myself successful the location to find her connected the room level successful a foetal position," Lisa recalled.

"She looked astatine maine and said 'Mum I can't bash this anymore. Will you look aft my babies?'

"Something successful maine snapped and I told her we weren't doing that and to get up.

"I deliberation that made thing drawback for her excessively and she decided she wouldn't enactment up with it anymore."

In a bid to get Megan feeling safer, Lisa helped her girl alteration the locks and installed information cameras.

Dan besides offered to determination backmost in, to enactment arsenic protection.

Fake claims

In an interrogation successful the documentary, Dan claims helium was disquieted astir being killed. 

“I person anxiousness attacks rather a lot, I shake, I’m frightened that someone's gonna termination me,” helium claimed.

“I tin beryllium sat successful a country afloat of people, you don’t cognize what a, b, c, idiosyncratic is going to bash to you. How are you meant to spell retired with friends erstwhile you consciousness similar that? When everyone is against you.”

But successful a horrifying twist, it turned retired that Dan was down the sustained run of maltreatment - and cops judge helium adjacent discontinue his occupation to give his full clip to stalking his ex. 

After helium was arrested by the cops for stalking Megan, his telephone was recovered to person accessed accounts that sent her abusive messages and a deleted enactment with an identical connection that was sent to the 101 web chat. 

Initially helium denied stalking her, but yet claimed helium wanted to apologise to Megan. He inactive denied immoderate harassment, including reporting her to Social Services successful a bid to get her children taken away. 

The malicious study alleged that Megan was a prostitute and utilizing drugs successful the aforesaid location arsenic the kids. 

“That study to societal services broke me,” Megan said. 

“He’d threatened it and past backed down but helium evidently had done it.

“I’m conscionable grateful that radical listened to me. I thought I was sounding similar a huffy pistillate erstwhile I relayed what was going on.”

Dan had besides emailed Megan's work, masquerading arsenic her, to resign and besides messaged the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons asking to beryllium removed from the veterinary nurses register.

Detective Constable Emily Richardson, 34, had started to judge that Dan was down the maltreatment due to the fact that of the idiosyncratic details that were included successful the messages. 

But it took clip to stitchery capable grounds to beryllium capable to apprehension him and prehend his telephone for examination.

Once she had arrested him, she was capable to find grounds connected his telephone that made it wide helium was down it. 

Reflecting connected the investigation, she said: “Stalking cases are horrible and scary, but this 1 was perfectly relentless. 

“Dan discontinue his occupation truthful that helium could bash it full-time. He utilized truly horrible idiosyncratic things against her.

“The sending of the dependable notes with a changed audio was conscionable perfectly chilling. It was similar thing retired of a fearfulness movie.”

Victim blaming

During the interviews, Dugdale refused ineligible proposal claiming helium knew what helium wanted to say. 

He besides kept insisting that helium was a unfortunate of anonymous maltreatment arsenic good but was caught retired by a deleted dependable enactment which said: "I've killed my kids. I request your help. I person weapons successful the house. They are not breathing. I person buried them connected the canine walking trail."

It was identical to a connection sent anonymously to 101's webchat which had sparked an equipped effect to Megan's home.

Despite initially trying to contradict it, Dugdale yet confessed to being down astir of the maltreatment sent to Megan.

Incredibly, helium was inactive keen to beryllium progressive successful the C4 documentary aft being arrested. 

In 1 chat connected camera, helium chillingly blamed Megan for his stalking behaviour and obsession with her.

He said: “Love breaks truthful quickly. That [pointing to an M tattooed connected his finger] is the archetypal of the miss who got maine successful trouble.

“One happening I bash judge in, the worst cause you tin bash is emotion and everyone wants a bit. It’ll ruin you.”

When Megan was informed it was Dugdale that had been down the abuse, she burst into tears but admitted it made sense. 

Megan says their narration had collapsed due to the fact that of his changeless cheating and mediocre behaviour.

In the documentary, Megan said: “I was barricaded wrong my location each the time. Doors locked, windows locked. 

“You honestly consciousness similar you’re losing your mind. I ended up lashing retired astatine everyone and shutting myself off.”

Sinister reminder

After Dugdale’s apprehension and charge, Megan decided to redecorate her country successful a bid to effort to determination on.

But she was horrified to find emotion notes he’d scrawled nether pictures each implicit the house. 

One said: “Just cognize I was arrogant to telephone you mine, each my everlastingly love, Dan.”

Megan said: “I wanted thing to bash with him and yet I was having to spot his handwriting and these loves notes connected the wall. It made maine consciousness truly uncomfortable.”

Dan was convicted of stalking, inciting fearfulness of unit and perverting the people of justice. He was sentenced to 3 years and 9 months successful jail. 

Traumatised, Megan has had to determination distant from Peterborough and says she volition debar the municipality altogether retired of fearfulness erstwhile Dan is released .

• 24 Hours In Police Custody: The Murder Messages is connected Monday 25 November astatine 9pm connected Channel 4