Sweet Bobby: Meet the real Dr Jandu whose identity was used to catfish radio presenter Kirat Assi in Netflix documentary

DR Bobby Jandu was the cleanable antheral for Kirat Assi, and she shared a ten-year narration with the cardiologist earlier uncovering retired she’d been cold-heartedly catfished by a subordinate of her ain family.

The shocking communicative is featured successful the new Netflix existent transgression documentary Sweet Bobby.

Who is Dr Bobby Jandu?

The existent Dr Bobby Jandu is simply a unfortunate of individuality theft successful a analyzable catfishing scheme.

He played nary progressive relation successful the deception of Kirat Assi.

Dr Jandu is simply a existent idiosyncratic whose individuality was stolen and utilized by Simran Bhogal to make the fictional quality her relative Kirat Assi believed she was successful a existent narration with for astir a decade.

The existent doc is reportedly a cardiologist surviving successful Brighton, England.

His individuality was taken and utilized without his cognition oregon consent.

Dramatic scenarios

The fake Dr Bobby persona was portrayed arsenic a New York based cardiologist, allowing Bhogal to make melodramatic scenarios and support the long-distance narration with her cousin.

Kirat told the sickening communicative of being betrayed and her quest for justness successful the deed podcast Sweet Bobby, presented by Alexi Mostrous.

The multi-part bid investigated “one of the world’s astir blase catfishers”

In 2022, Alexi wrote successful The Sun: “I archetypal came crossed Kirat’s communicative past June. A bully root handed maine a witnesser connection implicit lunch, telling maine it contained details of ‘the craziest case’ he’d ever seen.

'I’ve ne'er seen thing similar it’

“As I work the 140-page papers that night, I realised that helium was right. In much than 15 years of journalism, I’ve ne'er seen thing similar it.

“The connection elaborate each measurement of the catfishing cognition — from 2009 erstwhile Kirat, from London, was archetypal contacted connected Facebook by idiosyncratic called ‘JJ’, to the infinitesimal successful June 2018 erstwhile Bhogal came circular to her location and confessed to everything.

“Some of the details were, frankly, surreal. 

“At 1 point, Bobby died and past came backmost to life, claiming helium was successful a witnesser extortion programme having been changeable successful Kenya.

“He developed life-threatening illnesses, which meant helium was stuck for agelong periods successful infirmary successful New York.”

Kirat and Bobby were conscionable friends for the archetypal fewer years of the “relationship”, but successful 2015 became an online couple.

Bobby was based successful New York and Kirat successful London, with the “cardiologist” endlessly promising to sojourn her but ever cancelling astatine the past minute.

Master of excuses

Something ever happened astatine the past infinitesimal — usually a aesculapian exigency — and Bobby would ne'er travel done with immoderate of their scheduled meetings.

He was a maestro of excuses, telling Kirat helium couldn’t video telephone her due to the fact that his telephone was playing up, oregon due to the fact that helium was successful witnesser extortion and the rules wouldn’t let it.

Civil action

Bhogal confessed to her deception successful 2018, which prompted Kirat to study the substance to the constabulary first.

But erstwhile the constabulary didn’t prosecute transgression charges, Kirat made the determination to instrumentality civilian ineligible action.

In 2020, a civilian enactment was initiated by Kirat, with the litigation process lasting astir 18 months, with the lawsuit yet being settled retired of court.

Bhogal agreed to wage Kirat important damages and screen her ineligible costs.

Additionally, Bhogal provided her relative with a ceremonial missive of apology arsenic portion of the settlement.

It is understood to beryllium the archetypal palmy civilian assertion related to catfishing successful the UK, arsenic good arsenic the longest recorded case.

In the aftermath of the revelation, the existent Dr Jandu was considered by instrumentality enforcement to beryllium the superior unfortunate of the crime, arsenic his individuality had been stolen and misused.

Netflix existent transgression doc

Based connected the deed podcast and from the producers of The Tinder Swindler and American Nightmare, Sweet Bobby is coming to Netflix.

Kirat was 32 erstwhile she received a Facebook person petition that changed everything.

She says successful the show’s trailer: “What happened to maine is conscionable 1 brainsick story. You can’t marque it up.

“We’re talking astir 10 years of my life.

“Eventually, helium tells maine helium loves me. We effort to marque it arsenic mean arsenic you tin online … but there’s ever an excuse wherefore helium can’t spot maine face-to-face.”

Kirat and Bobby spoke connected the telephone for hours connected end, adjacent getting engaged, but she yet realised things didn’t adhd up and began to question whether she was being catfished.

“Finally, I was questioning everything,” she admits.

The trailer cuts to the real-life Bobby, who says: “I person ne'er spoken to her successful my life.”

Sweet Bobby premieres connected Netflix connected October 16, 2024.