A stalker repeatedly breached his bail by watching his ex from her kitchen window and threatening to kill her in a bid to force her to drop charges against him. Khalid Al-Doon, 27, harassed the woman over two months after they split up in January this year.
Manchester Crown Court heard he was arrested for a separate matter, and as a result was placed on police bail for an allegation that was not disclosed in open court. A condition of that bail was that he was banned from contacting the woman.
However, Al-Doon, from Salford, began stalking the woman, then 18, by following her in his car, loitering outside her house numerous times and making threats to kill her.
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He repeatedly told her to ‘drop it’, referring to her statement, and even offered her £5,000 to withdraw the allegation. Al-Doon was eventually arrested and pleaded guilty stalking. Earlier this month, on October 18, he jailed for a year and 10 months.
Speaking to the Manchester Evening News following sentence, the victim said she still feels frightened every time she sees a black Golf car - the model driven by Al-Doon when he stalked her.
"He took advantage of me," she added. "I was only 18 at the time and he is a lot older than me. He just had this obsession with me for no reason.
"I was really scared and feared for my life. I am still frightened and I have a lot of anxiety. Now he is in prison I feel a bit better but before I was terrified I'd bump into him."
Prosecutor David Lees said Al-Doon and the woman got into a relationship in November 2021, though he told her he wanted her to ‘keep it a secret’.
The relationship came to an end in January this year, and he was later arrested for a separate offence and released on police bail. On the afternoon of January 24, the woman was out shopping when he came up behind her in his car and shouted her name several times.
She told him he was not to speak to her and he told her to meet him at a restaurant later that day. She went to meet him and he asked her to get into his car, though she was apprehensive she got into the car out of fear.
“He told her to drop the allegations she made and suggested she should continue in a sexual relationship with him,” Mr Lees said. “Out of fear she said she knew nothing about the statement and he drove off at speed with her in the car.”
The court heard that her new partner, who was with her that day, followed behind in his car. Al-Doon said he loved her and wanted to continue seeing her but she said she was in a new relationship. He then offered her £5,000 to drop the charges and threatened to get her killed, the court heard.
He eventually stopped the car in Moss Side and she was able to get out and get into her partner's car. In a statement, she said she was in fear if she didn’t do as he wished and felt intimidated and felt she had no choice but to get into his car.
On another occasion she saw him in his car and he flashed his lights at her and laughed. Between the two dates from January to March, she saw him numerous times, he drove down her road on the way to work and on the way back.
“She saw him standing outside her house looking through her kitchen window. Another time he stood on the corner of the road watching her house,” the prosecutor continued.
“She heard him shouting her name and repeatedly shouting: “drop it, drop it, drop it' from outside her house.” Bravely taking to the witness box to read her victim personal statement, the woman said she has been left feeling scared and suffers with anxiety.
“This has not just had an emotional effect on me but also a physical one. I am not able to do things I would normally do.
“There is no stopping him. He has breached his court bail and his police bail. He has been calling me from a mobile phone in jail," she said.
"There is just no stopping Khalid. I just want him to leave me alone.”
Al-Doon was said to have no previous convictions. Mr Lees added that an aggravating feature to the case was that she was just 18 at the time, and there was nearly a 10 year age gap.
Defending, William Staunton said his client had been in custody for six months and so had served the equivalent of a 12 month sentence. He said this had given him time to ‘reflect’.
“He knows the relationship has come to an end. He knows that he will simply have to walk away,” Mr Staunton said. "These words were just puff and air - though they were clearly damaging.”
Sentencing, Recorder Daniel Lister said: “When she was in your car, you sped off with her - that was a terrifying experience for her. You attended at her house, you were shouting her name and telling her to ‘drop it’.
“You showed not only a determination to harass and stalk her, but she was also 10 years your junior. You have shown a wilful disregard to bail conditions and court order on a number of occasions. This was persistent.”
Al-Doon, of New Devonshire Square, was jailed for a year and 10 months.
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