Labour Councillor Pleads Guilty To Stalking Woman And Engaging In Bizarre Targeted Harassment

A City Councillor from Newcastle became the 'seventh' Labour Politician to be arrested and charged with a crime in the past six month period.

Councillor Dipu Ahad admitted leaving a woman alarmed and distressed by engaging in a serious and prolonged stalking campaign against her. She even confided in him about her fears, never suspecting he was the person responsible for her misery until the shocking moment police knocked on her door to say they had arrested him.

Pleading guilty to the charge, Newcastle Crown Court heard that Ahad committed a series of creepy acts between December 31st, 2018 and May 30th, 2019, which amounted to stalking.

The court heard the facts he confessed to include setting up fake email and social media accounts in the victim's name, "sending an email to himself purporting to be third party and revealing this to (her)", phoning her home purporting to be from a Government agency, sending her a message claiming he had received malicious calls, sending her a voicemail purportedly left by a third party, using chalk paint to graffiti her car, sending her an email containing photographs, sending a message "which contained a screenshot of an email purportedly sent by a third party to Ahad", and sending an email containing threats to himself.

After pleading guilty, Ahad was warned by a judge that "all options are open" when he is sentenced in April, meaning custody has not been ruled out.

The former Councillor, who forfeited his seat after not attending any council meetings for 6 months while the case was ongoing, is at least the seventh Labour politician to be arrested and charged with a crime in the past six months alone.

Ahad, the former Labour Councillor portrayed himself as a 'knight in shining armour trying to help a stalking victim - but he was the stalker and now he's behind bars serving 14 months, and being made the subject to an Indefinite Restraining Order.