A former police officer who put a tracking device on on a woman's car was jailed for 12 months yesterday.
Salam, 37, stalked the woman for eight months before she became suspicious and set up a honey trap to catch him out and confront him.
Salam was jailed for a year and made the subject of a lifelong non-harassment order yesterday, after Razia told Dundee Sheriff Court she was living in fear of him.
Sheriff Lorna Drummond said: “You pled guilty to a course of conduct against the complainer which involved you following her over two or three months, going to her children’s school and the gym, and texting her husband pretending she was having an affair, and placing a tracking device on her car.
“She stated you were someone who would stop at nothing. Her whole independence and confidence have been taken away and destroyed. She feels a prisoner and is left in constant fear. According to the reports, your angry, obsessive, unrepentant thoughts about the complainer indicate an elevated level of concern for risk to her.”
The court was told that the married father of four had set up an elaborate ruse to try to convince Razia’s husband that she was cheating on him.
The former special constable posed as a woman called Samantha and reported Razia’s movements to her husband in a bid to convince him his wife was having an affair.
But the couple set up a sting operation to out Salam and that led to an angry confrontation involving police and the discovery of the secret tracking device.
Fiscal depute Stewart Duncan told the court: “Mobeen Azhar got out of the car and confronted the accused and they began pushing each other.”
The fracas took place in view of police HQ and a detective rushed out to intervene and Salam was detained. Police also found the tracking device.
Salam admitted that between April 1 and June 7, 2019, he engaged in a course of stalking against Razia after she broke off their affair, which lasted from February 2018 to April 2019.
