Catfish Next Door stalker NHS nurse jailed again

A former nurse who used a voice-changing app to pretend to be a man during a stalking campaign has been jailed again for breaching a non-harassment order.

Adele Rennie, 34, pled guilty at the town’s Sheriff Court on Tuesday after admitting contacting a woman she had previously been banned from approaching.

Rennie was jailed in September 2024 and made subject of a five-year non-harassment order.

This banned her from approaching, contacting or attempting to contact the woman, whom she had targeted during an elaborate catfishing scam.

The Catfish Next Door, a documentary produced by STV Studios, tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Rennie, a former NHS nurse from Kilmarnock, who was revealed to be behind a string of meticulously crafted aliases.

Over a ten-year period, Rennie targeted a number of local women with sophisticated stalking campaigns, which all began online but had far-reaching consequences for her victims.

At Rennie’s first court trial in 2017, Sheriff Elizabeth McFarlane described the case as “the most astounding narrative of facts I think I’ve heard in my entire career”. But that was just the start of the story, which saw multiple aliases, hundreds of alleged victims, and the most unlikely of perpetrators.

She was released from jail on January 13, 2025, but remained registered as a sex offender and subject to monitoring and restrictions.

She had been released for just ten days when she sent a text message to the female victim.

Rennie was found to have flouted the non-harassment order on January 23 when a social worker was made aware of messages sent to the previous victim.

The phone number of the woman had been stored in Rennie’s phone under the name “Gord” – but actually belonged to her previous victim whom Rennie was prohibited by court order from contacting.

She was sentenced to 100 days in prison.

David Bernard, Procurator Fiscal for North Strathclyde, said: “The law will not tolerate Adele Rennie’s refusal to abide by the strict restrictions placed upon her.

“Prosecutors at COPFS will respond robustly to keep the community safe from distressing and damaging behaviour like stalking.

“We recognise the trauma suffered by some victims of this insidious crime and court orders will be enforced at the earliest opportunity should a perpetrator such as Rennie attempt to reoffend.

“I would encourage anyone who has been the victim of such offending to come forward, report it and seek support.”

Rennie was also jailed in 2017 for stalking a number of women while pretending to be a man.

She had used a voice-altering app to change the tone of her speech and utilised a number of aliases including David Graham, David Crolla, Davie, Marco and Matthew Mancini.