Arrest made after stalker followed influencer Chloe Koyce to Dublin hotel room
Two months ago, fashion and beauty creator Chloe took to Instagram, where she boasts over 180,000 followers, to recount the petrifying experience which left her worried for her safety.The Limerick-born influencer told how a man followed her off the street and into her hotel lift where he proceeded to take off his belt.She recounted how she pressed record on her phone while she was in the lift in the hopes of gathering evidence just in case something did happen to her.In the clip, the man, whose face is blurred out, can be seen holding his belt in his hands in what Chloe believed was an effort to intimidate her.She said: “I wasn’t sure if he was going to strangle me or take off his pants.”Chloe's instagram statementThe man, who was in his late teens or early 20s, then followed her to her hotel room but fled after after Chloe’s mother opened the door.In a statement yesterday gardai confirmed: “Gardaí attached to Kevin Street garda station investigating an alleged incident of stalking/harassment that occurred at a premises on Harcourt Street, Dublin 2 in the early hours of Friday, 21st March 2025 arrested one male (20s) in recent weeks.“The male was detained for questioning at a garda station in Dublin following a search at a residential address.“He has since been released from custody and a file will be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.“This investigation is ongoing.”In her original video, Chloe revealed she was out with her two close friends at a bar, which was just metres away from her hotel, earlier in the night.She said she’d said the name of her hotel out loud while putting her friend in a taxi home – before walking the 50 metres from the taxi rank to the hotel reception.She said she believed the man had overheard her conversation.News in 90 seconds - 11th May 2025 After walking the short distance to the hotel at 2am, Chloe noticed a man behind her and, to her horror, she recognised him as the same man that had stood near her when she said goodbye to her friends on the street.She explained: “I ran to the lift. My shoes were falling off me. There was nobody on the reception, there was no security.“My mam was upstairs and all I was thinking was ‘I want to get to my mam’. So I pressed close door.“The door was closing and he slid in the gap. It jammed on him. I didn’t really know what to do next. Straight away, I thought I need to record this. I was going to ring my mam, but I didn’t want to scare her either.“Between the time he came in the hotel and got in the lift, he took his belt off his pants.“When he got into the lift, he had a belt in his hand.“I was like, ‘okay, is this guy going to strangle me or take his pants off?’ He didn’t actually touch me. When he got into the lift, I didn’t press my floor number. I should have probably got out.”In the video, Chloe can be seen entering the hotel room shortly after asking the man, who had begun to walk in front of her at that point, if he was OK.“Thank God my mam was in that room because if I used my keycard to get into my room, he would have 100 per cent pushed in behind me. He’s way stronger than me.”She said: “I’m hoping after this story that they have extra security. This world is absolutely crazy. They looked on the security footage and they couldn’t find him.“This happened at one minute past two in the morning, we didn’t get to sleep until half five. We were so thoroughly careful and still something has happened.”
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