“You should go on Plenty of Fish, you need a man,” a friend jokingly encouraged Jennifer. The then 36-year-old was working as a Patrol Manager at Centre Parcs at the time, and was loving her life.
Joining the dating website out of curiosity, she would get ‘randomers’ messaging her. Then she received a message from Jonathan Mealing: “Hi, how are you?”
Little did she know this was the start of the next three years of hell. After being convicted at a trial of offences of rape, controlling behaviour and sexual assault against three women, Mealing, of Welbeck Close, Whitefield, was this month jailed for 30 years.
