A woman was shocked and a bit confused after her Tinder date broke into her house and poured spaghetti into her shoes.
Trusting Alisha Moy is unlucky in love and found herself looking for matches on online dating app Tinder, and soon she matched with Jordan Cobbold.
But Alisha got cold feet after just a month when the pair failed to gel and she called it off, then, in revenge, ‘needy’ 21-year-old Jordan used a key to sneak into her flat while she was at work.
Heartbroken Alisha returned home to find her footwear filled with beans and tinned spaghetti, as well as damaged walls, furniture, clothes and brand new electrical appliances.
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Alisha, from Ipswich, Suffolk, said: "Things turned weird.
"We’d be watching a film and he’d just burst into tears for no reason. I’d ask him what the problem was, but he’d just ignore me.
"Then, when we got together, he started saying stuff like ‘this is the stage of the relationship when everything starts going wrong’.
"We’d only been seeing each other a matter of weeks! It was so confusing, I couldn’t understand why he was being so intense and needy."
Alisha messaged Jordan to tell him their fling was off.
"He blocked me and that was it," she says.
"The next morning I went to work for 8am and didn’t get home until 6pm.
"I knew something was wrong as soon as I walked in the hallway - I usually leave all the interior doors open, but someone had closed them all.
"I opened my living room door and just burst into tears at the sight in front of me.
"He’d pulled my shoes out of the little cloakroom and poured beans and spaghetti in there.
"There were condiments splattered all over the walls and cooking sauce poured all over my vacuum cleaner."
Still sobbing, Alisha walked through to her kitchen where she found brand new appliances had had their cables cut through.
In her bedroom, Alisha found her make-up trashed, shower gel poured in her drawers, plus more appliances and phone chargers with severed cables.
The bathroom was strewn with red bubble bath and a shoe had been chucked down the toilet.”
Alisha called her mum in floods of tears.
"I couldn’t even speak," she recalls.
"Mum had to call the police for me because I couldn’t get my words out."
Officers arrived within hours and Alisha moved out to stay with a relative until a forensic team had examined her flat.
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She told police she believed Jordan was responsible and they arrested him within days. Meanwhile, Alisha spent a day and a half cleaning up her trashed flat with the help of a relative.
She had to repaint the living room, kitchen and bathroom and needed professionals to clean her carpets, and while she was able to repair the cut cables to some of her appliances, others had to be binned.
The damage caused by Jordan’s wrecking spree was estimated at almost £1,520.
"It was heartbreaking," she says. "It took months before I felt safe again."
Alisha deleted Tinder after Jordan’s rampage and has since met someone new.
Jordan appeared at Ipswich Crown Court in January after previously pleading guilty to criminal damage and one count of burglary after he took a necklace that he had given Alisha on her birthday.
He got a two-year community order, with 30 rehabilitation activity days and 180 hours of unpaid work.
He was also ordered to pay Alisha £1,750 in compensation and £425 in court costs, and was given a five-year restraining order.
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