A mum who felt like she was in a 'horror film' after being stalked by her ex-boyfriend has issued a warning.
Stalker Khalid Al-Doon threatened to kill the woman, who did not want to be named, and watched her through the kitchen window in a terrifying two-month campaign.
A court heard he repeatedly breached his bail, followed her in his car, loitered outside her house numerous times and issued threats in a bid to force his former partner to drop charges against him. The 27-year-old also repeatedly told her to ‘drop it’ and even offered her £5,000 to withdraw the allegation, reports Birmingham Live.
He admitted stalking and was handed a year and ten months jail sentence - of which he had already served six months, the equivalent of 12 months. It's now been claimed after being released from prison, he has reportedly moved to Birmingham where few know of his criminal past.
Hi ex-girlfriend said: "He's gone to Birmingham now and I want everyone to know in Birmingham as well. I want everyone to know who he is because he's not a very nice man, he frightens me.
"He decided to move because he said 'everybody in Manchester knows who I am, everyone knows I'm in the news and I can't live my normal life.'"
But after his prison release, the Manchester mum says she's back to living on the edge.
The 20-year-old said: "It makes me terrified. I'm frightened, I'm petrified, I feel like I'm living in a horror film like this is all just Netflix." The campaign began when the pair split up in January 2022.
Allegations were made against Al-Doon - who proceeded to follow the mum, repeatedly urging her to drop the charges. "I was only 18 at the time," she recalled.
"He was stalking me, watching me outside his house, one day he dragged me in the car and sped off. The first [incident] he got me in the car and he was saying 'drop the charges'.
"He drove all around Salford trying to convince me to drop the charges. The other incident, he saw me in Salford, he told me to get in the car and my partner, he went and followed us.
"He found me and he got out and ran." He then offered her £5,000 to drop the charges and threatened to get her killed, the court previously 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 read to the court, she previously said she feared what would happen if she didn’t do as he wished.
She said she felt intimidated and had no choice but to get into his car. In another incident, she found him outside her home
"One day when I was washing the dishes and I opened the blinds of the kitchen window, he was staring at me saying 'drop it', it was constant harassment," she added. The court had been told Al-Doon shouted her name outside the house during the incident.
"The one he loved to do the most was follow my car. He liked to follow and block in my car. He's never said I'm sorry. He's just a menace," she added.
"I just want to give awareness of, don't let people take advantage of you, I just try to be strong. There's always a light at the end of the tunnel, I don't know when my light will come but hopefully soon.
Sentencing Al-Doon last October, Recorder Daniel Lister had told him: “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.”
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