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A stalker who targeted 191 women on a ‘rape list’ and paid ancestry websites more than £500 to obtain personal details of his victims has been jailed for 32 months.
Vishaal Vijapura used 28 different aliases on social media to anonymously stalk his victims and even paid address and ancestry tracing websites to obtain information on his targets.
Police also found eight Excel spreadsheets listing 191 names, addresses, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers, family names and Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram usernames among their stash of digital files.
When a victim blocked him from one account, he would set up another account and use it to continue sending them messages anonymously.
Arrested
Vijapura, 28, became obsessed with women during the Covid lockdowns between June 2020 and January 2021 when he was arrested.
The court heard that Vijapura, who is autistic, has obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression and ADHD, graduated from university with a first-class math but was unable to get a job after leaving education.
At Croydon Crown Court on Tuesday, he was jailed for two years and eight months after pleading guilty to seven counts of stalking involving fear of violence at an earlier hearing.
A s*xual harm prevention order was also issued, as well as a restraining order that prohibited him from directly or indirectly contacting any of the names on the list he created for life.
Victims
In his online posts, Vijapura tried to justify why he would rather rape someone than have consensual s*x.
Notes on Vijapura’s phone found typed essays detailing s*xual abuse and rape fantasies he had sent to some victims.
In a message to one victim, he told her that he would rape her at her home address and film the assault so it would go viral.
She told another victim that her assault would render her “completely unconscious.” She sent laughing emojis to a third victim after a vile graphic message.
All of these victims were unknown, but Vijapura paid at least £500 to use research sites such as ancestry.co.uk and 192.com to find out about their lives and scare them, police said.
Investigation
This vast amount of information Vijapura researched was used to intimidate his victims by regurgitating details about themselves as he stalked them.
He even started an Instagram post titled ‘why rape is better than s*x: a thread,’ police said.
Cops were able to find that of the 191 names, 150 were actual traceable people, according to police.
Vijapura, from Croydon, south London, was captured after several victims lodged complaints with the police and officers managed to track him down from the IP address he used.
Helen Shaw, Crown District Attorney at CPS London South, said after the sentencing hearing: ‘Vishaal Vijapura carried out a shocking, truly frightening and vicious campaign of harassment against a number of victims.
His conduct involved hiding behind a screen and using social media anonymously to threaten to inflict extreme and graphic s*xual violence on his victims.
“All of these victims were unknown to him and yet Vijapura paid at least £500 to use investigative outlets such as ancestry.co.uk and 192.com to find out about their lives and instill in them a fear of physical violence.
“The damaging impact on his victims cannot be underestimated, many of them described feeling petrified and frightened in their own homes as a result of Vijapura’s behaviour.
His actions have also continued to have a significant impact on her daily life in the long run.
‘I would like to thank the victims for helping with this large and complex investigation which has brought Vijapura to account.
“Stalking can be deeply distressing, and CPS is committed to working with law enforcement to root out criminals and bring them to justice.”
