A WOMAN, who had an affair with a married man, stalked him relentlessly for five months after the relationship ended, a court heard today.

Bradford Crown Court heard that Amreen Mahmood’s victim and his wife were left suffering torment and anguish as a result of what she did.

Prosecutor Tim Capstick told the court that the stalking included sending up to 100 text messages a day, turning up at the complainant’s home, workplace and gym, using racist and abusive language and making threats.

Sentencing 34-year-old Mahmood to a ten-month prison sentence suspended for two years, Judge Jonathan Rose said she had relentlessly interfered in the lives of people she had no reason to interfere with.

Mahmood, of Myers Close, Idle, Bradford, pleaded guilty to stalking involving serious alarm or distress.

The court heard Mahmood had been cautioned in 2008 for harassing the wife of a man she believed she was in a relationship with. And in 2014 she was given a restraining order for a racially-aggravated public order offence, again involving a man she believed she was in a relationship with.

Mr Capstick said the complainant, in his late 20s, was married with three children. He had been in a relationship with the defendant but it had come to an end in December 2015.

The man complained to police after Mahmood sent him messages and attended at his home. She was arrested for harassment but was not prosecuted because the man did not provide a witness statement. The contact involved up to 100 text messages a day.

Mr Capstick said that between April and September this year there were a number of incidents.

She said she was pregnant and turned up at his gym and threatened to do a pregnancy test in front of everyone. When he left, she followed him and banged on his car windows.

Mahmood attended the place where he worked as a doorman and was abusive to customers and other members of staff.

On another occasion she confronted the man’s partner at home, told her she had been in a relationship with her husband for five years, was pregnant, and showed her a scan photo of the baby.

She also sent text messages which were persistent and threatening, used racist and abusive language, at all hours of day and night.

The court heard Mahmood had been suffering from depression for a period of time which needed ongoing treatment.

Judge Rose told Mahmood she had made threats and had used vile racist language. He added: “Your relentless attacks on this man, and on his family, caused torment and anguish, to use their own words.”

He made a restraining order to protect the complainant and his family, made a four-month curfew order and a 30-day rehabilitation activity requirement.

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