I’m after you now — I’ll make you suffer

AN Oldham man rejected by a young woman he tried to woo on the Internet turned into a spiteful stalker, a court heard.

Abu Miah (25) was furious when his advances were rejected, after the pair had been communicating on the social networking site Facebook.

He bombarded her with threatening and abusive calls and text messages, lurked outside her home, and even managed to get her mobile phone disconnected, after ringing her service provider claiming it had been stolen.

In one message, Miah of Redvers Street, Oldham, told her: “I’m after you now. I’m going to make you suffer.”

In another he said: “I’m going to make you regret it. You watch. I will personally make you suffer. You’re going to learn the hard way from me, bitch.”

Jailing him for eight months at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court, Judge Andrew Lowcock told him: “You wanted to go on a date and she turned you down. As a result you pestered her and subjected her to a barrage of abusive and threatening messages.

“This was a nasty campaign of intimidation, and the only appropriate sentence is one of immediate custody.”

Darren Preston, defending, said his client simply would not take no for an answer, and his behaviour had been “preposterous, absurd and threatening.”

He said Miah had acted totally out of character, and had been simply venting his frustration. Though disgraceful however, it had been words rather than actions.”
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