The Twisted Tale of Daniel Dugdale
REAL
Naomi Channell
4.8 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In 2023, Megan Brailsford was subjected to some of the worst stalking the British police had ever seen. At one point, she was getting a call or text from her stalker every 4 seconds.
But... then the stalker sent a message that revealed too much and the identity of the perpetrator floored everybody involved.
This is Real.
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. |
| 0:05.9 | Please use discretion. |
| 0:08.2 | In 2024, the Office of National Statistics in the UK cited that of the 1.4 million police |
| 0:16.4 | reported stalking incidents, almost half a million of those were classed as domestic stalking. |
| 0:24.5 | But what if you and your partner were both being stalked at the same time? |
| 0:31.9 | That's what happened in today's case, but as the police investigation progressed, they discovered things were far from |
| 0:41.0 | what they seemed. I'm you know, |
| 0:55.0 | I'm |
| 0:56.0 | going to |
| 0:58.0 | you |
| 0:59.0 | I'm |
| 1:00.0 | I'm |
| 1:01.0 | I'm |
| 1:02.0 | you know In January 2023, Megan Browlsford was at home with her two children in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, when she was startled by a knock at her front door. |
| 1:33.8 | It was 11pm. She wasn't expecting anyone. |
| 1:38.7 | So she went downstairs, opened the door, and there stood six armed police officers, with guns and torches, shining in the door, and there stood six armed police officers with guns and torches shining in her |
| 1:48.7 | face. I explained that they were there because someone posing as Megan had logged onto the |
| 1:56.1 | Cambridgeshire Police Live chat and said, I've killed my kids. I need your help. I've buried them on the |
| 2:05.4 | dog walking trail. The police entered Megan's home and discovered that both of her children were |
| 2:12.4 | safe and asleep in their beds. It had been a sick hoax. The police left and Megan was left wondering, |
| 2:22.2 | who would do such an evil thing? She didn't have any known enemies. She was a newly single mother. |
| 2:31.0 | She was close to her family and she worked as a veterinary nurse. The police opened an |
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