Matthew Hardy: Last News

A mum who says she was targeted the stalker who featured in a popular Netflix documentary claims the ordeal shattered her marriage. Kristen Dugdale, 31, says she suffered under the torment of Matthew Hardy — known as Britain's most notorious cyberstalker — who received a nine-year prison sentence for stalking involving fear of violence and harassment after violating a restraining order in January 2022.

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A mother has come forward to reveal her chilling ordeal that left her scared for her life at the hands of Netflix's Can I Tell You A Secret? stalker Matthew Hardy.

Netflix documentary Can I Tell You A Secret? explores the crimes of serial cyberstalker Matthew Hardy.Based on a true crime podcast of the same name, the miniseries follows some of the women targeted by Hardy and the police investigation which led to him receiving the longest custodial sentence in British history for stalking online.Hardy is believed to have stalked at least 62 victims over 11 years by creating fake social media accounts, before he was finally convicted in 2022.In January 2022, Hardy was sentenced to nine years in prison after he pleaded guilty to three counts of stalking with intent to cause alarm or distress, two counts of stalking without intent to cause alarm, and breaching a restraining order from 2013. He also admitted to stalking four further women at the time.In October of the same year, Hardy’s sentence was reduced to eight years in the court of appeal, after it was agreed that the original sentence was too high.According to his lawyer Sara Haque, the original sentence failed to take into account Hardy’s mental disorders, including Asperger’s and autism, which apparently caused him to have a lack of empathy for those impacted by his actions.His sentence was also reduced due to a change in the law in April 2017 for stalking offences, which the judge had failed to take into account.Hardy is still in prison at the time of writing (February 2024).

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A woman said her life was 'ruined for three years' after she was catfished online as part of a campaign of harassment.

A 'catfish' posing under hundreds of fake social media profiles left his victims 'living in constant fear.'