Ross Cairns pictured leaving Manchester Magistrates' Court was convicted of stalking. A spurned husband spied on his estranged wife by remotely accessing an iPad mounted on the wall of their former marital home. Electronics expert Ross Cairns exploited his knowledge of technology to monitor the movements and conversations of his spouse Catherine by logging into the static device using his mobile phone.
The couple had been married for 16 years and have two daughters aged five and three, Manchester Magistrates' Court heard. It connects TV sets, satellite boxes, lighting, central heating and alarms which can be controlled by the iPad and remotely using a mobile or laptop. But after they split and Cairns moved out, he used an App on his iPhone to log into an audio facility on the iPad so he could eavesdrop as Mrs Cairns discussed their crumbling marriage. When Mrs Cairns told her mother she no longer loved her husband, he turned up unannounced on the doorstep and repeated the conversation she'd just had.
The year-old also hacked into her accounts on Facebook and dating app Bumble and sent an intimate picture and obscene messages to men. Electronics expert Ross Cairns tracked the movements and conversations of his spouse Catherine pictured together by logging into the static device remotely using his mobile. Catherine Cairn's ex-husband also hacked into her accounts on Facebook and dating app Bumble and sent an intimate picture and obscene messages to men. The couple split up in and Cairns moved in with his mother then began spying on his wife in August last year, the court heard.
The system, which Cairns made himself administrator of, allows users to view and hear what is going on in the house using the camera and audio facility on the iPad. Mrs Cairns told the hearing: 'Ross came to fix the fish tank which had overflown. We were still friends and I also wanted him to have a look at the security system, so I gave him my phone. He came back in and he was crying. He grabbed my phone and went off with it.
He ran upstairs and got the wedding rings and said that I wouldn't need them. I was discussing it with my mother in the kitchen. My parents left, then I started getting various messages from him, saying that I was not going to 'have one over on him'. He said "oh, you don't love me any more. The couple split up in and Cairns moved in with his mother then began spying on his wife in August last year.
