A nurse created male alter-egos to trick ten women into online relationships.

Adele Rennie's victims included a 17-year-old girl she met on Tinder, a colleague and the granddaughter of a patient.

The 27-year-old convinced some of them to send intimate photos of themselves and engage in explicit conversations, even using an app to change her voice.

Sheriff Elizabeth McFarlane told Rennie the case was possibly the "most bizarre she had seen in her courtroom".

Rennie, who worked at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, told her victims that relatives had suffered fatal heart attacks or were dying of cancer to gain sympathy.

She admitted 18 separate charges over a five-year period including stalking, sexual offences, data protection breaches, attempting to pervert justice and breaching bail conditions.

Rennie was jailed for 22 months at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court on Monday and placed on the sex offenders register for ten years.

She is also banned from working as a nurse for 18 months.