Women who tried to report Christopher Harkins said they felt 'dismissed' when they approached Police Scotland.
Nine women separately told police about one of Scotland's most prolific and predatory romance fraudsters in the years before his arrest, the BBC has found.
He used dating sites like Tinder to target women, typically singling out successful, career-driven women around Glasgow and the central belt. One woman was forced into bankruptcy while others spent years paying off debts, suffering mental health issues as a result. "I was asked whether or not I had slept with him at that point, which I didn't feel was relevant. I remember feeling really frustrated."Determined to expose Harkins, Lisa emailed journalist Catriona Stewart, who published an article in Glasgow's Evening Times newspaper."Within a few hours of the article going live I had five women who had been in touch with Christopher Harkins phone me," Ms Stewart said.
"Each one was reported at different stages, so they weren't all reported together, they were reported in different divisions throughout Police Scotland," she said."It was mainly around the financial situation, which when they're treated in isolation, they have been taken as civil investigations. After spending a night with Harkins, Naomi said he sent her a still image from a video he'd taken of her while they were intimate, leaving her feeling "absolutely violated".
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