Listen to chilling audio as creepy Scots Catfish stalker Adele Rennie uses voice-change app to sound like a man
CHILLING audio reveals how creepy Catfish stalker Adele Rennie used a voice-change app to sound like a man.
The twisted ex-nurse this week pleaded guilty to targeting a woman in a romance ruse after having been caged twice before for identical catfish con.
We told how Abbie Draper, 34, contacted cops after being alerted to a suspicious online post that bore all the hallmarks of Rennie’s previous offending.
The former Miss Scotland finalist’s intervention sparked a fresh probe that saw Rennie, 33, thrown in jail for a THIRD time before she this week pleaded guilty to targeting a fresh victim.
Abbie, now a kids entertainer, said: “I advised the girl to stop communicating with ‘him’ and save everything and don’t let on you know it’s a catfish.
“I also urged her to contact the police especially if ‘he’ knows your address or has ever sent anything to your address.”
Abbie has been tormented by Rennie since June 2014 when she came onto the serial sex offender’s radar while visiting her dying grandad at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock.
Rennie pretended to be 80-year-old John’s physio before approaching Abbie online under the guise of a fake hunky doc she called David Graham.
Abbie was one of many women subjected to a campaign of online offences that included using a voice-changing app on her mobile phone that made Rennie sound like a man.
Rennie was eventually caught and given 22 months in 2017 and placed on the sex offenders register for a decade.
She spent 11 months in Greenock nick but offended a second time upon her release and was given a further three-year stretch in 2019.
But she didn’t stop there and was once again behind bars in October last year after Abbie alerted cops to her latest catfish crime.
Abbie explained: “Towards the end of October last year I got a message from a friend who had seen a post on a Facebook group called ‘Are we dating the same man, Scotland’.
“It’s supposed to be there to kind of protect women from people that might have red flags or criminal convictions before they go on a date with them.
“I wasn’t a member of this group but I joined it and looked at the post and red flags came up straight away because it was identical to the thing I’d seen from Adele in the past.
“But even then I thought there is surely no way this could be Adele again – but the similarities were incredible.
“I spoke to the girl who had been chatting to a guy she knew as Callum Crolla who lived in Newton Mearns and worked in pharmaceuticals.
“She had made arrangements to meet but he would never appear so she posted a picture of the guy and asked if anyone else had met him.
SHOCK AT WEIRDO'S THIRD TERM
ABBIE Draper admitted she was shocked but not surprised that Rennie is behind bars for a third time.
We told how the twisted ex-nurse used a voice-change app to pose as a male pharmacist looking for dates.It follows two previous stints in jail for pretending to be men online.
Mum-of-two Abbie — targeted by the oddball in 2014 — said: “When she re-offended the second time I was shocked just because I think any normal person from being in prison would want to change their behaviour.
“Now that she has done it a third time, I don’t really know how I feel.
“There is an element of shock but I’m not surprised now.
“It seems like prison is not enough and it must be too easy for Adele.”
“The name Crolla was an Italian-style name that Adele had used before when she created names like Matthew Mancini and Dan Crolla in previous scams.
“He worked in a medical-related job which was also familiar and the picture she used was very similar to the one she used during her first offences involving a fake doctor she called David Graham.”
It was at the point Abbie turned detective and managed to gather enough info to prove Rennie was at it again.
She sat in the public gallery at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court on Tuesday to see Rennie plead guilty to a string of offences mirroring her previous scams.
She admitted causing her latest victim fear and alarm between August and October last year.
She also admitted attempting to cause the women to look at an explicit image by sending her a picture of a man’s privates.
The court heard police probing Abbie’s tip-off spoke to a woman who had matched with a ‘man’ on Tinder “purporting to be a pharmacist” called Callum Crolla.
Rennie showed no emotion as she appeared from custody before Sheriff Nicola Patrick who told her she had displayed an “alarming pattern of behaviour”.
She deferred sentence until September for reports including a psychological assessment.
CATFISHER 'STILL WON'T OWN UP'
SERIAL catfish scammer Adele Rennie still believes she has done nothing wrong, one of her victims has claimed.
Abbie Draper revealed her suspicions after seeing the ex-nurse return to the dock at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court.
She said: “I sat in court and heard that when she was arrested she did say, ‘It wasn’t me’. If she wasn’t advised to plead guilty, I don’t think she would.
“She still thinks she hasn’t done anything wrong. I could see her shaking her head.
“I don’t think she’ll take any responsibility.”
Rennie was remanded ahead of a hearing in September.
Abbie added: “We’ll just need to see what sentence she gets.”