A British Army Gurkha who became infatuated with a colleague's wife has been handed a restraining order after calling her in the middle of the night and harassing her on social media. Sergeant Bamprasad Lumba developed a 'deeply unfortunate and inappropriate infatuation' with Kusum Thapa-Gurung and 'romantically pursued' her while her husband was deployed abroad, a court martial heard.
The 34-year-old married man repeatedly messaged her, asking when he could come for dinner and called her 27 times in a four-month period. She even had to block him on social media, but the court heard he continued to 'pester' her by making new profiles.
As a result she ended up feeling like "a prisoner in her own home", Bulford Military Court, Wilts, heard. After she complained to military police, Sgt Lumba admitted a single charge of harassment, between September 2020 and January 2021.
