These jealous, obsessed men made their victims' lives a misery.
Whether it involved stalking an ex-girlfriend or a complete stranger, their selfish actions had terrible consequences for these women.
One lost weight, another said she'd suffered hair loss as a result of the stress while one even started writing a suicide note.
Here are some of the stalkers to appear before Manchester's courts in recent months.
Ahmad Qhobadpour
After Qhobadpour's victim rejected his romantic advances, he subjected her to a terrifying campaign of harassment.
He even started stalking her friend to try and get to her.
Qhobadpour met the woman through his job working at a shisha bar.
After she split from her boyfriend, Qhobadpour began asking her to go out on a date.
He became angry after she told him she liked him as a 'friend or a 'brother'.
Qhobadpour began to repeatedly call her, up to 100 times in on day, and 75 times on another day, calls she ignored.
She had to block him on social media, but he didn't get the message.
The woman even decided to leave the family home and move in with a friend, as she was 'in fear of her own life'.
He then turned his attentions to the woman's friend, continually asking her where she was.
She had decided to lie to him and tell him she was unwell.
The first victim decided to confront Qhobadpour.
He warned her: "I will find you and I will f*** you."
Qhobadpour also said he would force her to make a video, saying she 'slept around' to 'destroy her reputation'.
In another phone call he told her he would find her and 'rape her in the street in front of everyone'.
On another occasion Qhobadpour 'suddenly appeared' after she had spent an evening with a friend and her boyfriend.
Qhobadpour started punching and kicking the car as she drove away.
"The threats he made to me throughout this time were horrendous," she said, while her friend attributed hair loss to the stress of Qhobadpour's stalking.
Qhobadpour, of Beveridge Street, Rusholme, admitted two counts of stalking and was last month jailed for two years.
Tozumul Hussain
Enjoying a day in the park with her children, the woman noticed her ex-husband hiding behind a tree and taking pictures of her.
Hussain, 35, then ran up to her and snatched her house keys away, before grabbing hold of the pram and 'marching her down the road'.
After being told police were not able to immediately attend, she had to seek refuge in a nearby funeral parlour for around three hours, before staying at her sister's house for the night.
Their 'fairly abusive relationship' had ended in 2018, Manchester Crown Court heard.
It was in November the following year when Hussain stalked her.
The day after the incident in the park, she went back home and found her home had been badly damaged.
Minutes after she arrived, Hussain turned up at the house and banged on the door, asking to be let in.
Police later arrested him.
After being released, he called his ex about fifteen times with the intention of getting her to drop the case.
Sentencing, Judge Tina Landale slammed Hussain for trying to intimidate his former partner.
The judge said: "This offence is very serious because you showed a complete disregard for her right to do exactly as she chooses.
"Your relationship had ended.
"You would not accept that, you knew she did not want you in her life but you went and hid in the park then snatched the keys and maliciously damaged her property while she wasn’t there."
Hussain, of Claremont Street in Chadderton, was jailed for nine months in March after admitting stalking and causing criminal damage.
Raymond Sharples
Sharples drove his victim to the brink of suicide.
He started sending the woman, a complete stranger, sexually explicit fantasy letters after seeing her on TV.
The woman became so distressed that she started writing a suicide note.
A postgraduate student in Manchester, the woman had appeared on an ITV show talking about her experience of mental health issues.
Sharples, 64, looked her up on social media and found her email address.
He told her she was 'beautiful', and told her he had a 'crush' on her.
The woman thought the message was 'creepy' but 'laughed it off'.
She didn't reply to that or a subsequent email.
Then Sharples sent a package to her parents' home, containing a CD by The Smiths, photographs of himself and £5.
She began to 'freak out' when she discovered he had sent the items.
In a letter, he said: "I want you to be the last thought I have before I pass into oblivion."
He sent another package to her home, as well as three letters which were sent to the department at her university.
Sharples told her she had no reason to have low self-esteem as she was ‘stunning’, ‘drop dead gorgeous’ and was ‘the best looking and most sexy girl on the entire planet’.
The woman said she found the letters 'disgusting', and was left feeling 'violated' and 'paralysed with fear'.
She told how she had begun writing a suicide note.
Sharples, of Ashdown Drive, Bolton, avoided jail after a judge was told he was experiencing a 'crisis' in his life, and was socially isolated as the full time carer for his wife.
In May last year, he was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months.
Nicholas Doyle
Doyle's 17 month stalking campaign drove his victim out of her home.
She lost weight, sought help from Women’s Aid and started carrying a personal alarm.
"I have never felt more scared or controlled and worried about what he is going to do," she said.
She had been in a relationship with Doyle for three years, but they split in May 2019.
Doyle bombarded her with messages, calls and threats, saying he'd ‘ruin her life’ if she didn't reply.
He turned up at her home and damaged her car. She moved out two months later.
Doyle, 30, then took to social media, creating fake Facebook accounts and sent her numerous message requests.
One read: "What a shock you wasn’t home, don’t leave your window open next time."
On one occasion Doyle told her he had access to her bank account details.
The following day she received a phone alert from the bank, telling her that her account had gone into overdraft.
Even after being arrested and bailed, Doyle sent her an email saying he 'had her life in his hands'.
In January Doyle, from Higher Blackley, was jailed for two years after being found guilty of stalking.
In a letter to the court, Doyle said: "I really hope she can get past this and move on with her life.
"I couldn’t be more sorry for my actions and I will never contact her again."
Kyle Bell
Bell's ex-girlfriend was 'tired of living in fear'.
She had been stalked by him for months, even cutting her TV and internet supply and using her iCloud account to track her.
His 'prolonged' and 'dedicated' campaign also involved following her around, cutting her tyres, and offering people money to look for her.
Bell, 27, had 'struggled to accept' their break up.
Over a seven month period, Bell, who has a previous conviction for harassing another former girlfriend, left her 'extremely distressed'.
After she went on a date with a work colleague in Liverpool, Bell called her and said he'd knew she'd been to the city.
He had access to her iCloud account while they were together.
The tyres to her car were cut on five separate occasions.
And she later noticed her TV and internet had stopped working.
An engineer could find nothing wrong, but it later emerged a cable from the cabinet leading to her house had been pulled out.
Bell offered people money to look for her, and arranged for his ex and her friend to be 'defamed and harmed'.
"You are an immature bully and you need to learn your actions have consequences, not just for you but for other people," Judge Bernadette Baxter told him.
"You made this woman's life a misery."
Bell, of Radford Close, Stockport, pleaded guilty to two counts of stalking involving serious alarm or distress.
He narrowly avoided jail after his barrister said he is in work and was deemed as posing a 'low risk of further conviction'.
In June, he was sentenced to 21 months in prison, suspended for two years.
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