Christopher Harkins was eventually jailed for 12 years after women came forward to report his crimes It began with a short email from a stranger asking for help and it ended six years later with a ...

Lisa, who is using a pseudonym because she doesn't want to be linked to this story forever, explained that Harkins had ...

Women who tried to report Christopher Harkins said they felt "dismissed" when they approached Police Scotland.

It was 2017 and I was working as a newspaper reporter when I got the email from a woman who detailed how she had met a man named Christopher Harkins on Tinder and he had stolen £3,247 from her.

Christopher Harkins was finally jailed for 12 years in July 2024 but women who had tried to report him in the previous decade said they felt "dismissed" when they approached Police Scotland.

Christopher Harkins, from Argyll and Bute in Scotland, was jailed for 12 years after he was convicted of serious sexual, violent and financial offences against women he met online ...

Christopher Harkins was convicted of a catalogue of serious sexual, violent and financial offences against women over six years and was finally sentenced to twelve years in prison in 2024.

Christopher Harkins, 38, was reported to police 'nine times before his arrest' - before eventually being jailed last year for a string of serious sexual, violent and financial offences.

COPS missed nine chances to snare Tinder rapist Christopher Harkins, it has been revealed. The beast, 38, was caged for 12 years in July after he was found guilty of rape and sex assault ...