They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
Sep 27, 2026 · 26 min · 22 segments
A series of disturbing incidents in shops across Cheshire and Greater Manchester leaves women unknowingly targeted by a stranger, while police gradually begin to uncover a troubling pattern… \*\**…
There is a quietness to the most ordinary moments.
Our minds can drift somewhere else entirely as we go about a familiar routine without giving it much thought.
Pushing a trolley down an aisle, loading the shopping, and queuing at the till.
For several women across Cheshire and Greater Manchester, that familiar routine would never feel quite the same again.
Throughout the spring and summer of 2025, a stranger they never even noticed would change their lives forever.
This is the 70th in a series of bonus episodes.
The offending began in May and came to an abrupt end in September.
For months, women were unaware that someone was watching them.
The locations were not secluded or isolated.
They were ordinary shops and supermarkets, places where people came and went throughout the day.
In Cheshire, the offending took place in Macclesfield, Handforth, and Stanley Green.
Macclesfield is a busy market town, while further south, Handforth Dean is a large out-of-town retail area beside the A34.
The offending also crossed the boundary into Greater Manchester with incidents in Denton and Stockport.
The shops and supermarkets in these locations were staffed by numerous employees, and the hundreds of shoppers who went about their business were closely monitored by CCTV.
To anyone in these stores, there was nothing unusual about the man moving through the aisles.
He was simply another customer, though a pattern began to emerge.
The perpetrator would scan fellow shoppers and select a woman who was alone.
He would then follow them, keeping his distance.
He was waiting for the right moment.
To anyone glancing over or walking by, he would have looked just like another customer doing his weekly shop, but he was not.
As he covertly stalked each woman through the aisles, he squirted a liquid at them from a bottle he was carrying.
He always aimed at their hair or back, and in most cases, the women had no idea anything had happened.
There is a quietness to the most ordinary moments.
Our minds can drift somewhere else entirely as we go about a familiar routine without giving it much thought.
Pushing a trolley down an aisle, loading the shopping, and queuing at the till.
For several women across Cheshire and Greater Manchester, that familiar routine would never feel quite the same again.
Throughout the spring and summer of 2025, a stranger they never even noticed would change their lives forever.
This is the 70th in a series of bonus episodes.
The offending began in May and came to an abrupt end in September.
For months, women were unaware that someone was watching them.
The locations were not secluded or isolated.
They were ordinary shops and supermarkets, places where people came and went throughout the day.
In Cheshire, the offending took place in Macclesfield, Handforth, and Stanley Green.
Macclesfield is a busy market town, while further south, Handforth Dean is a large out-of-town retail area beside the A34.
The offending also crossed the boundary into Greater Manchester with incidents in Denton and Stockport.
The shops and supermarkets in these locations were staffed by numerous employees, and the hundreds of shoppers who went about their business were closely monitored by CCTV.
To anyone in these stores, there was nothing unusual about the man moving through the aisles.
He was simply another customer, though a pattern began to emerge.
The perpetrator would scan fellow shoppers and select a woman who was alone.
He would then follow them, keeping his distance.
He was waiting for the right moment.
To anyone glancing over or walking by, he would have looked just like another customer doing his weekly shop, but he was not.
As he covertly stalked each woman through the aisles, he squirted a liquid at them from a bottle he was carrying.
He always aimed at their hair or back, and in most cases, the women had no idea anything had happened.
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