Beast by name

Julie Emms, 53, Leicester

Fiddling with my phone, I scrolled through the faces on the dating app. Was I really doing this?

It’d been three lonely years since my husband Dale had died of sepsis at just 46.

After 20 years happily married, I was lost.

I had my two daughters and four gorgeous grandkids.

But I was only 49. Wanted a man in my life again.

So in May 2019, I took the plunge and messaged one of the blokes online.

His name was