Stalker freed from jail subjects another woman to three-year 'Hollywood film' ordeal
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A sick stalker tormented a woman for three years after he was freed from prison for harassing another woman. Shuaib Muhammad, 31, South Shields, South Tyneside, subjected his latest victim to an "extreme" level of stalking. He continuously crept outside of her home, removed latches from her window locks and got hold of her phone number.
His stalking was compared to scenes from a "Hollywood film" after his behaviour continued to escalate. He caused his victim to sell her flat and take a month off of work due to stress. Muhammad set his sights on his latest victim after he was released from prison.
He was previously jailed for 30 months in 2017 after he got a copy of a customer's key while working as a plumber. The twisted workman placed sex toys in her home, nicked her underwear and masturbated on her clothes. Newcastle Crown Court heard how between 2019 and 2022, Muhammad got into his victim's security system, spray-painted her windows and camera lenses or covered them in plastic bags to obscure the view of what he was doing around her property.
Prosecutor Jolyon Perks told the court: "This conduct persisted over a prolonged period. It involved a high degree of planning, it involved the defendant tracking her from location to location. We submit the conduct was intended to maximise fear or distress.".
Muhammad, of Marshall Wallis Road, admitted stalking involving fear of violence and has today been jailed for five years. Mr Recorder Brian Whitehead issued Muhammad with a lifelong restraining order and said the facts of the case "read something like a Hollywood film". Recorder Whitehead added: "I have never seen a case, falling short of violence, where this sort of distress and harm is caused, forcing someone essentially to move out of her house, forcing her to sell and then continuing.".
