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My abusive ex-boyfriend secretly stalked me for months with hidden tracking app on my phone

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A woman says she was left “terrified” by her abusive ex-boyfriend after he stalked her for months using a secretly downloaded tracking device on her mobile phone.

Lisa* said her former partner downloaded a tracking app on her phone without her knowledge in 2019 when they were still together.

She said he used the software, which was completely hidden from the owner of the phone, to follow her movements for a year, when it was discovered by police some seven months after they had broken

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