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[indistinct radio chatter]
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Downloaded from
YTS.MX
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This is PC French 529 recording,
Gidley Way in Horspath.
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Um, we've got a female with a single
laceration wound to the right thigh.
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Official YIFY movies site:
YTS.MX
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There is clearly bloodstains
on a white pillow.
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This is where the victim is saying
that she's been attacked.
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- [paramedic] We're just doing some--
- What's the lady's name?
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[PC French] I don't know, sorry.
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Hiya, I just need to get the name
of the person that's attacked you.
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I don't know who the people were,
but it's all connected to my ex.
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- [PC French] What's your ex's name?
- Iqbal Mohammed.
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[Iqbal] It was intended to be fun,
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no commitments, no strings attached.
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- [camera shutter clicks]
- I never knew he was married.
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[camera shutter clicks]
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All I ever wanted was the truth
as to why he did what he did.
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[man] Iqbal had his bit on the side
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and he was quite happy with that
until he got found out.
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[Anisah] Why, why did he betray me?
How do I feel about what he did?
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Iqbal was arrested for
five offenses of rape.
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I did, you know,
mistreat her and I accept that.
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It was on the basis of a betrayal.
It was lies.
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- I did actually feel sorry for her.
- [Iqbal] I didn't stab Anisah.
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[man 1] Oh, he was panicking.
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[Iqbal] I didn't kidnap anyone.
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I kept saying to him,
"She's very dangerous."
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I actually feel like he raped me.
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She was very volatile.
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[woman 1] Anisah's goal
was to ruin Iqbal's life.
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[man 2] She had a big plan.
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[typing]
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She wanted Mr. Mohammed to suffer
just as she had suffered.
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There's a genuine risk to me
of a physical risk.
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[man 3] If you die here,
how do I prove my innocence?
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Anisah Ahmed's passion was
to exact revenge upon Mr. Mohammed.
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This woman was making him think that
the only way out was to end his life.
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[Iqbal] I feel weak saying it...
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but the truth is,
I was really scared of her.
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[ominous music]
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[ominous electronic music]
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My name is Kevin Parsons.
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{\an8}I was a detective sergeant
at Oxford CID, Thames Valley.
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The office received a call that
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there had been a kidnap and knife attack.
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[PC French] PC 529 in, um, Wheatley,
where there's been an alleged stabbing.
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All I know is I'm dealing with a GBH.
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Name of the victim is Anisah Ahmed.
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[PC French] If we look inside the vehicle,
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on the front seat, there is clearly
bloodstains on a white pillow.
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We're not gonna delay
taking her to hospital.
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- Sure. I just need to get a name of...
- Yeah, if you can do that.
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The offender. That's all I need.
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{\an8}She had been threatened with a knife.
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She was made to drive 15 minutes
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outside of Oxford to a small village.
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She's then stabbed by,
for want of a better term, a hitman.
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[DC Oliver]
This is a very violent incident.
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Potentially, we have an offender out there
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that we have to get in
as soon as possible.
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[PC French] Have you got
any description at all?
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I don't know who the people were,
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- but it's all connected to my ex.
- What's your ex's name?
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- Iqbal Mohammed.
- Iqbal Mohammed.
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[legal official]
Mr. Treasurer, I present Iqbal Mohammed.
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[treasurer] Mr. Mohammed,
in the name of the Masters of the Bench,
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I call you to the degree of the utter bar.
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{\an8}[Iqbal] I was chosen to be
in a documentary
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{\an8}about young barristers
by chance.
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{\an8}I remember for the first time
when I put the wig on,
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{\an8}made of white horse hair,
I thought it was never really
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{\an8}designed for Asian people like me.
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It took some time to get used to
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my podgy little face under it, but
when I wore the robes for the first time,
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it was definitely something
that made me feel really proud.
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So I practice as a barrister
from chambers based in Birmingham.
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I didn't think when I was young
I would be a barrister.
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I thought I'd be working in
the coal mines in the West Midlands.
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[loud chattering]
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People do know about me
from this documentary.
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[dings]
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I gather that that's
where she first saw me.
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Her name was Anisah Ahmed.
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She must have been 23 or 24,
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and around that time I was 30.
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[typing]
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She was working as a lawyer
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and she wanted to move into the bar
and she wanted a bit of help with that.
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We met up in late 2013.
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She was obviously quite glamorous.
I mean, I liked her.
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[message notification]
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We hit it off and we exchanged messages
and started flirting with each other.
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[message notification]
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And after just a couple of meetings,
we started a sexual relationship.
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[suspenseful music]
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[notification dings]
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{\an8}[Gary] I first got to know Anisah
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{\an8}when she approached chambers
to start sending work into chambers
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{\an8}on personal injury
stroke clinical negligence cases.
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[Iqbal] Gary is my clerk.
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Clerks work with barristers
in organizing their practice
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and dealing with clients and so on.
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[Gary] It was strange because
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her first approach was to say,
"Would Iqbal Mohammed
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be available to take on this case?"
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[Iqbal] She told him that
she had a lot of work,
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very valuable work, and she
was prepared to send it all his way.
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She never actually told me
directly that she knew Iqbal,
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and also Iqbal had never mentioned
to me that he had known Anisah.
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[message notification tone]
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[birdsong]
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[Iqbal] I was completely
taken by her,
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and overwhelmed, I suppose,
by the attention
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that she was giving me and
showing me and she seemed really amazing.
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It was intended to be fun,
no commitments, no strings attached.
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[notification tone]
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But then something went wrong.
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[notification tone]
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Anisah discovered that I was married.
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[tense music]
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{\an8}When Iqbal first told me about Lubna,
I was ecstatic, couldn't wait to see her.
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{\an8}We flew to Istanbul for their wedding,
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and it was an amazing, beautiful day.
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[Iqbal] Anisah didn't know about Lubna.
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She didn't know about Lubna at all
until Lubna posted a picture of us online.
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Anisah found that post
and discovered that I was married.
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She was really furious.
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She said that,
"I'll throw acid on her face."
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I'd had enough at this point
and I said I'm not meeting you again.
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It's finished.
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- [intense music]
- [notification tone]
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Anisah had contacted me
at the beginning of December.
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And she told me that she'd been
having a relationship with Iqbal.
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- [typing]
- [notification tone]
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She writes that she needs a break
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before she ends up
killing herself over this shit.
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I did actually feel sorry for her.
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[typing on phone]
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She then started getting aggressive.
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[typing]
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She was very volatile.
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She says to me, "It was a relationship,
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it's gone sour
and I want to make him pay."
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[tense music]
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[Saima] It was a weekend morning
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and there was lots of messages from Lubna.
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She said, "Log into your Facebook
and have a look at your messages."
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So I did. I logged into my Facebook.
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[Iqbal] Anisah had sent Lubna
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all the messages, pretty much,
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that had been sent between me and Anisah.
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She sent 21 messages through Facebook.
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She sent them to Lubna.
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She sent them to Lubna's mom.
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Lubna's uncle.
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She sent them to my cousin
and my little sister as well.
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I saw that my brother had been
seeing another woman.
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I-- I was in complete shock.
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It was very humiliating
because they were sent to everyone.
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Nobody was spared.
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And, um, it was really hard to believe.
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I had to tell Lubna the truth, so I did.
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You know, I admitted everything.
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When I read these messages,
I was shouting,
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I was crying my eyes out.
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It was such a worry for me
and my mom as well.
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I felt devastated that
I'd been that callous towards
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somebody that I really loved.
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The betrayal of it,
the deception of it.
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Because I made my bed and I lay in it.
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Um...
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Lubna... Lubna left.
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I don't blame Anisah.
I'm not pretending that she made me do it
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or she chased me or wore me down.
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No, it was-- it was my decision.
I own that.
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I kept saying to him,
"Iqbal, how can you do this?
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How can you put any of us,
including Lubna, through this?"
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[emotional music]
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[notification tone]
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[disturbing music]
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Anisah had said
quite vile things about Lubna.
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Threatened to throw acid on her face.
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And I wanted to show Lubna that I cared.
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So I sent Anisah a message,
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saying to her, "Well, look,
two can play at that game.
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I've got videos and pictures of you.
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And I can send them to your family."
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I was telling her to leave me alone.
I said, "Fuck off and die,
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because I do not want
to hear from you again."
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{\an8}I first met Mr. Mohammed
sort of early January 2015.
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He felt that he was being
harassed by Anisah Ahmed.
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But there was more to it than that.
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Mr. Mohammed had a wife in all of this.
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Direct threats had been made against her.
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So I had an hour-long conversation
with Anisah
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and all I said was that her conduct
could be interpreted as harassment.
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But she was so adamant
that she'd been wronged.
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So all my harassment warning seemed to do,
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in this case, was inflame the situation.
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[notification tone]
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I was scared of Anisah.
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It was on the basis of a betrayal.
It was lies.
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- [man] I understand that.
- He never told me the truth.
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Had I known, would I have let him
record everything? No.
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Inside of me, I had to
also think, "Was this all true?"
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Her agenda was revenge.
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I actually feel like he raped me.
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I do truly feel like that.
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{\an8}My brother had been seeing another woman.
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{\an8}He'd had an extramarital affair,
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{\an8}and it wasn't
a thing of which he was proud.
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{\an8}I mean, he-- he did wrong.
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{\an8}She said it herself,
she was angry, she was livid.
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When she emailed, it felt like
she was trying to destroy me.
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[notification tone]
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[intense music]
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{\an8}[Gary] So after a while,
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{\an8}I'd heard that the Head of Chambers
had been approached by Anisah.
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[notification tone]
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Anisah Ahmed had now alleged
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that he'd sent sexually threatening emails
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from his work email account,
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and that he'd threatened her
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that he would release intimate videos
of Anisah Ahmed to family friends.
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You can see an anger
and a venom in those messages.
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[Iqbal] They were abusive.
They were threats.
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They were very similar to the message
that I sent her, which I never denied,
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even to my chambers, to the police,
whoever it was, I accepted I sent it.
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But her argument was going to be,
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"Well, if he sent this one message,
which he admits,
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he must have sent
the other messages as well, then."
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There was a lot of murmurs and rumors
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and talks going around the clerk's room.
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I'd heard through the grapevine
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that there was gonna be
some kind of investigation.
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We had access to what allegations
had been made against Iqbal.
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Sexual allegations.
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I suppose, inside of me,
I had to also think, "Was this all true?"
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[Iqbal] My Head of Chambers
had no choice
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but to say that he was going to suspend me
because quite clearly,
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the emails were extremely serious.
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[tram wheels squeal]
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What Anisah Ahmed does next
is interesting.
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She'd put together an application
for a non-molestation order.
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And part of the evidence
in her non-molestation order
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were the emails
purporting to be from Mr. Mohammed.
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Mr. Mohammed was absolutely shocked
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when an interim injunction
was authorized against him.
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[Iqbal] I was stunned.
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This is an injunction,
a really serious thing,
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but at the same time,
it's really quite chilling.
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Because the more immediate concern is,
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"Well, am I actually going to
be even practicing as a barrister?"
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Because the word gets out that
I'm a chiseling con artist
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that's had an injunction made against him
and my clients run a mile.
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[suspenseful music]
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[Saima]
We could see that something was not right.
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[Iqbal] I was frightened.
I was really scared.
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[Saima] But there's one thing
that was for sure,
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that we were gonna stand by him
and we were gonna stick by him,
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we were gonna support him
because I know my brother.
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I could see that he was telling the truth.
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Anisah Ahmed had alleged to
Mr. Mohammed's Chambers
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that he had sent her
sexually threatening emails,
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all from his work account.
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Head of Chambers had appointed an expert
in forensic analysis of computers.
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And, lo and behold, it was proven that
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no such email had ever emanated from
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Mr. Mohammed's email account at work.
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[Iqbal] At last, I felt like
I was being listened to.
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The emails were categorically false.
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I knew he was telling the truth,
um, and it was very clear,
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uh, what she was doing.
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[DS Bennett]
For me, that was a key moment.
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She'd received a harassment warning, um,
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and yet she went on to fabricate emails.
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That was the point when I knew that
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Anisah had got to be
interviewed under caution.
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My colleague and I traveled
down from Birmingham to Oxford.
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And then we attended
Anisah's home address.
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Knocked at the door. And I arrested her.
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And it was almost as though,
you did get that sort of suspicion
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that she'd been waiting for us.
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And then we drove
to Abingdon Police Station.
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{\an8}All I did was speak out
and tell his wife and his family,
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{\an8}and then he sends me
those two abusive messages
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{\an8}referring to me as a whore.
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I wasn't revenging at him, I just...
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All I ever wanted was the truth
as to why he did what he did.
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Why? Why did he betray me?
How do I feel about what he did?
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You know, making all these
sexual videos and photos.
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And then me later finding out
he was already married.
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She said she'd been wronged
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and that she wanted Mr. Mohammed to suffer
just as she had suffered.
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Yeah, I am upset with what he's done.
Of course I am, rightly so.
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But even then, I don't want a revenge,
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I just wanted him to delete them.
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That's why I felt I had to go to Chambers,
because he wouldn't apologize
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and he wouldn't delete them.
That's all I had asked for.
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[officer] Thank you.
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She knew that I didn't keep
pictures and videos of her. At all.
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She sent me loads of things
and I deleted them.
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[DS Bennett] Basically,
you made a complaint
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that Iqbal was sending you emails
from his work address.
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None of those emails
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were ever sent by Iqbal
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from his address.
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They never left the chambers servers.
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Do you have any idea
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who would have forged,
for want of a better word,
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Iqbal's email address and cloned it
in order to send those emails to you?
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I accept having done that,
but only that and nothing else.
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She was charged with harassment.
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But I didn't get justice.
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There actually wasn't a trial,
and that charge was not proceeded with.
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It was frustrating. It was disappointing.
I couldn't believe it.
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[notification tone]
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After a couple of months,
Lubna returned back home.
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Lubna coming home
was a really important thing for me.
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[Saima] Iqbal had made
a big, a huge mistake,
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but she loved her husband
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and she was going to
stick with him and stand by him.
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{\an8}[Iqbal] I was really grateful.
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{\an8}I really needed Lubna back,
and she came back.
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[notification tone]
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She was somebody that supported me
and gave me the courage
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and the encouragement
that I needed to fight back.
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Anisah's campaign didn't stop.
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It didn't drop a gear,
it actually carried on.
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At every opportunity, social media,
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real life, telephone, email,
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text message, in person, friends,
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family, work, colleagues,
they were all being targeted.
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[Saima] He said,
"She would go to any extent
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to try and harm me, harm my family,
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just to get to me, really."
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We sold our cars
and bought new ones
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because she'd made
a fake complaint to the police
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that she'd seen my car outside her house.
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So he did say, "If anybody calls you
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and tries to get your address
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or find out any information about me,
just put the phone down."
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I had to change my phone number.
Lubna changed her phone number twice.
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We had cameras fitted.
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So it was a huge, huge impact on my life.
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{\an8}The lengths that she's gone to
with the fabricated emails,
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{\an8}um, it just makes me think that
she has some genuine...
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{\an8}there's a genuine risk to me,
of a physical risk.
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On 5th June, I was working in Chambers
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and a colleague asked me
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to come down to a meeting room.
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So I stopped what I was doing
and went downstairs.
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And when I opened the door
to the conference room,
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there was my Head of Chambers and two men.
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And my Head of Chambers very calmly said,
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"I've got here two police officers
who are going to arrest you."
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And, um,
the two officers then arrested me.
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[Nisar] There was five counts of rape.
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{\an8}And of course, it was
a course of conduct over a period of time
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{\an8}and that in itself,
in my view, made it more serious.
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[DS Bennett] Mr. Mohammed was arrested
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and it transpired that
Anisah had made these allegations
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against Mr. Mohammed
only three days after I had arrested her.
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{\an8}You know, he referred to himself as
a sexual master because I knew nothing.
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{\an8}So anything sexually
he wanted doing on him, I did.
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I actually feel like
he raped me to the ex--
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I do truly feel like that
because it was not consented to.
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I was pushing him off me.
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[Saima]
That must have been so humiliating.
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It must have broken him
to go through that--
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to have gone through that.
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[Nisar] I was disappointed to find out
that he'd been humiliated
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by being arrested
in the presence of his colleagues
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and they, um, frog-marched him
to the police station from there.
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I've no issue with people saying that
you are not without blame
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when it comes to
the relationship that I had with Anisah.
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But I didn't rape her.
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I didn't kidnap anyone.
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I didn't stab Anisah.
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[PC French] This is where the victim is
saying that she's been attacked.
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I didn't deserve to end up in jail.
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Nobody deserves that.
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I feel absolutely sexually abused by him.
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She is really dangerous.
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[Iqbal] She was quite nasty. She said that
I was a complete fucking bastard
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and I'd used her
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and that I would suffer,
I would suffer as a result of that.
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{\an8}You know, he schemed everything.
He lied to me so much
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{\an8}and really made...
really gained that control
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{\an8}and then just manipulated
and absolutely sexually abused me.
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{\an8}That's how I feel with what he did.
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{\an8}Iqbal was arrested for
five offenses of rape.
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They were over a period of time
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and took place in Taunton,
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Manchester, Swindon and Birmingham.
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[Iqbal] The custody sergeant
took my stuff. Took my DNA.
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Another officer walked me to the cell.
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Yeah.
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Walls.
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[cell door locks]
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{\an8}I have a kind of,
almost a nauseating sickness feeling.
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She had now said that I'd raped her.
Many, many times.
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And not, "Oh, well,
there's miscommunication", no.
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"He held me down and he raped me.
And he forced me."
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I really don't want to say
I ever was afraid of Anisah.
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I feel weak saying it.
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And it's a little bit humiliating.
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But the truth is
I was really scared of her.
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Because I know how the system works.
And the system is not infallible.
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I mean, this is completely ridiculous,
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but it's possible that
a judge accepts it as true.
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It was difficult for me.
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It was difficult.
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I wanted to speak to Lubna
and obviously tell her that I was okay,
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but I was not allowed to speak to her,
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and later on I discovered it was
because they were searching my home.
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Three police officers going through
every nook and cranny, every sock,
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every pair of boxer shorts, every drawer,
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every cupboard of our home.
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And Lubna was told to wait outside
while they did that.
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That was a difficult night for us.
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It was difficult. Very difficult.
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[groans]
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[haunting cello music]
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{\an8}I can remember speaking to
Mr. Mohammed after he'd been locked up.
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{\an8}And, well, you could hear
the distress in his voice.
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I remember thinking about
how you could kill yourself in a cell.
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How would I do it?
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I felt that...
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that...
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dying would be quite good,
quite a bit better than carrying on.
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Sorry.
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[crying]
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{\an8}It's just heartbreaking seeing
somebody so strong
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{\an8}and saying something like
they want to end their life.
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I remember thinking that there's
no way you can hang yourself,
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and I was looking all around for...
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you know, a way to do that.
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[pensive music]
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Oof.
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It just shows you the level of damage
that she was doing and...
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how much it was breaking him.
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And he's such a strong person.
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He's not--
He's not an emotional person.
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You know, he doesn't cry very easily
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and he doesn't give up very easily.
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And to think that...
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this woman was making him think
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that the only way out was to end his life.
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After he was interviewed, he was
released from the police station.
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[Iqbal] They didn't charge me.
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I was bailed and I was allowed to leave.
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But they said
they'd interview me properly later
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and only then would they decide whether
or not they were going to charge me.
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It had got to such a desperate point
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because it just was
such a cumulative sort of impact on him.
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It was just one thing after the next.
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[Iqbal]
She starts signing up to counseling.
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She says that she's got PTSD.
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She's suffering from flashbacks.
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00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:11,520
Extreme anxiety.
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And then, for the first time...
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she tells the police
I'm sending her death threats.
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"I'm going to kill you.
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I'm going to stab you so many times."
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The argument she's making here
in these messages is that,
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"Look, he is so dangerous, that if I don't
withdraw these allegations of rape,
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he'll kill me."
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[intense music]
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I was interviewed
when I was originally arrested,
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and then there was a big delay
in my complete interview,
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and I was desperate to clear my name.
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So me and Nisar, we drove down to Swindon
for my police interview.
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When we arrived at the station,
I said to Iqbal, "Give me your car keys."
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And he said, "What for?"
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And I said, "Just in case I need to
get back to Birmingham without you."
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00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,880
He said to me, "What do you think
is going to happen today?"
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And in the back of my mind,
I was thinking, "Is he innocent?"
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There's a possibility that you could
get charged and remanded in custody.
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00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,400
That-- That really terrified me.
481
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,280
I had not thought about that at all.
482
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,280
But I remember my heart jumped.
483
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,280
This interview was make or break.
484
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,240
This interview was about whether
I get charged with rape or not.
485
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,440
Oh, he was panicking.
486
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,920
It was a situation
of life and death for him.
487
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,040
And clearly, these officers were ready.
488
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:21,200
They really knew their brief
and they were no pushover.
489
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,880
But I said to him, I said,
"Let's go there to change their mind."
490
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,040
[Iqbal] I took that quite literally
491
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:31,720
and I prepared
a lever arch file of about 350 pages.
492
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,000
And a lot of the evidence that I had,
most of the evidence I had,
493
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,160
was Anisah's own words.
494
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,080
On 12th November, 2014,
she said that she was raped.
495
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,400
Now remember,
all of these rapes are with force.
496
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,240
She was forced and she was raped.
497
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,640
But just days after that,
Anisah's messages are normal,
498
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,240
they're ordinary.
499
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:55,240
Even flirty.
500
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,840
[notification tone]
501
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,000
[Nisar] Mr. Mohammed
was able to demonstrate that
502
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,920
if this was a series of rapes,
503
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:09,920
then why is it that she
continued to meet Mr. Mohammed?
504
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,000
[notification tone]
505
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,480
[Iqbal] She says that
she was sexually assaulted.
506
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,560
But why would you meet that person
a second time,
507
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,600
and a third time,
and a fourth time, and then,
508
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,320
three months after being
raped and sexually assaulted,
509
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,320
send him a message saying,
"How's the relationship going for you?
510
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,480
What do you think? Do you like me?"
511
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:37,080
Anisah was saying the rapes took place
after I'd coerced and forced her,
512
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,080
but I was absolutely crystal clear
513
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,000
that these are complete fabrications.
514
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,600
After a seven-hour interview, I felt
I'd completely blown apart her story.
515
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,400
[Nisar] I could feel the relief
516
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,960
and I then started to think,
517
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:00,520
"Iqbal, you're innocent.
518
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,320
You're not guilty.
Don't worry. We're going back home."
519
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,199
[Iqbal] And I did go home.
520
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,360
But it wasn't over.
521
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,639
I now had to wait to see
522
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,520
if I'd done enough to clear my name.
523
00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:25,960
[ominous music]
524
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,400
[DS Parsons] Sunday, 12th July, 2015,
525
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,840
the office received a call that
526
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,520
there had been a kidnap and knife attack.
527
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,760
There's a serious injury involved.
528
00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:48,440
{\an8}Victim's name, Anisah Ahmed.
529
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,679
[PC French] Victim is alleging that
she's been victim of a stabbing.
530
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,320
- Have you got any description at all?
- It's all connected to my ex.
531
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,199
- What's your ex's name?
- Iqbal Mohammed.
532
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:57,520
Iqbal Mohammed.
533
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,080
We've got a female with a single
laceration wound to the right thigh.
534
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,040
{\an8}Police were called to
a really serious incident
535
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,240
{\an8}where a vulnerable female
had been stabbed.
536
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,280
They turn up and they speak to paramedics.
537
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,120
We're not gonna delay
taking her to hospital.
538
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,040
Sure. I need to get
the name of the offender.
539
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,600
- Yeah, you can do that.
- It's all I need.
540
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,080
Literally, all I need.
541
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,200
[DC Oliver] And also Anisah Ahmed
in the back of an ambulance
542
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,920
who's telling us that
she has a stab wound to her leg.
543
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,040
I just need to get the name of
the person that's attacked you.
544
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,360
I don't know who the people were,
but it's all connected to my ex.
545
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,280
- What's your ex's name?
- Iqbal Mohammed.
546
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,400
Iqbal Mohammed, okay.
547
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,520
He made me send an email to Swindon CID.
548
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,680
- Okay.
- Retracting my complaint against him.
549
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:41,200
You don't know who attacked you today?
550
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:42,160
- No, I don't.
- Okay.
551
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,040
{\an8}[DS Parsons] Anisah's initial account was
552
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:53,400
{\an8}she had been leaving her house
to drive to Wiltshire.
553
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,920
She was forced to stop by a car.
554
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,240
Someone got out of the other car,
got in her car,
555
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,480
and then told her she had to
follow the other car, which she did.
556
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,200
She was, at that point,
being threatened with a knife.
557
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:16,600
She followed the other car
to a small village
558
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,440
just outside Oxford,
559
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,680
where she was forced to
get out of the car,
560
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,120
told to send an email
561
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,960
withdrawing her rape allegations
against Iqbal.
562
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,400
She refused.
563
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,320
She's then stabbed by,
for want of a better term, a hitman.
564
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,080
She then sent the email,
565
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,280
and the offender left.
566
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:50,560
After the stabbing, she managed to drive
567
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,560
about 500 meters into the village
568
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,840
before she flagged someone down for help.
569
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,720
{\an8}- And she was waving
- [PC French] Okay.
570
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,440
{\an8}- And so I pulled over.
- Okay.
571
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,760
{\an8}And said, "What's wrong?"
and she said, "I don't know where I am."
572
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,200
And she said, "I've been stabbed."
573
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,160
And I could see she had a gash on her leg.
574
00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:13,400
Okay.
575
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,080
{\an8}- [DS Parsons] Where?
- About here, I'd say, on her leg.
576
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:19,560
{\an8}And I could see blood.
577
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,200
Loads of blood.
578
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,520
The wound was horrendous.
579
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:30,000
Anisah herself reported it
to be 15 centimeters long.
580
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,000
It's a horrific injury.
581
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,120
[DS Oliver]
I actually visited Anisah in hospital
582
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,360
and spoke to her about what had happened.
583
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,680
What struck me was that she was so calm
584
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,480
and clearly
in a lot of pain from her injury.
585
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:54,120
{\an8}So I said, "Well, who stabbed you?"
And she said, "My boyfriend."
586
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,000
{\an8}Did you see anybody running away at all?
Anything like that?
587
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:58,880
{\an8}- No.
- Anyone who might have actually done it.
588
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:00,240
{\an8}- You didn't see anybody else?
- No.
589
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,640
[Angie] I spoke to the 999 caller.
590
00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:04,280
I sat and I just held her hand.
591
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,200
I didn't know what else to do
so I sat and I held her hand
592
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:08,720
and eventually an ambulance arrived.
593
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,120
[PC French] Okay,
have you got any description at all?
594
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,240
It was the same guy who last
threatened me with a brandishing knife.
595
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,000
- But you don't know his name?
- I don't.
596
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,480
- And your ex is Iqbal Mohammed? Okay.
- Iqbal Mohammed.
597
00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:23,280
I have seen body cam footage of Anisah
in the ambulance
598
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,120
where all she can do is say,
"This was Iqbal, this was Iqbal."
599
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:30,720
{\an8}[Iqbal] On the same day,
600
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,880
{\an8}a couple of police officers
had come to our apartment
601
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,080
{\an8}to check on us, which was really odd.
602
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,920
They came in,
they insisted on seeing Lubna,
603
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,000
because I said,
"Oh, yeah, she's fine, she's here."
604
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,120
They insisted on seeing her.
They didn't tell us why,
605
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:45,680
why they wanted to see her.
606
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,040
We didn't know
anything about the stabbing.
607
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,960
So we were totally confused...
why... what was going on.
608
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,120
[atmospheric music]
609
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,240
[DS Parsons] The stabbing had taken place
610
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:06,320
about half a kilometer up the road
from where the car was parked.
611
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,040
Anisah's saying
she was stabbed outside the car.
612
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,160
I can find no blood anywhere else.
613
00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:15,200
Only blood is in the car.
614
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,200
We're being told
that the injury has happened
615
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:23,840
outside of the vehicle,
616
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,200
but we can find
no blood outside of the car.
617
00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:32,560
I'm thinking, "I don't understand this."
618
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,520
{\an8}I just remember the phone call
from Kevin Parsons,
619
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,480
{\an8}and I shall never forget it
as long as I live,
620
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:42,680
and he said,
621
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,880
"Lee, if I were to say the name
Anisah Ahmed to you,
622
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,440
what would you say to me?"
623
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,880
{\an8}I feel absolutely sexually abused by him.
624
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,960
{\an8}All I wanted was just the truth.
625
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,000
All I said was, "What has she done now?"
626
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:04,200
It turns out that West Midlands Police
had already been investigating Anisah,
627
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,080
an incident that happened
early on that year,
628
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,320
where she had been
arrested for harassment.
629
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,680
{\an8}I just want those videos
and images deleted.
630
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:15,480
{\an8}- That's all it was.
- [officer] Thank you.
631
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,520
{\an8}[DS Parsons]
There'd been an incident at a workplace
632
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,920
where she'd actually received
a caution for harassment.
633
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,720
There was an incident at
the university she got her law degree at.
634
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:28,800
[suspenseful music]
635
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,440
Two, three days later,
636
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:37,360
one of my team trawled CCTV
all around the area.
637
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,920
Anisah Ahmed had claimed
that she'd been carjacked
638
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,480
and that she'd driven
this particular route.
639
00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:51,200
He came back with two still images
of two cars on their way to the location.
640
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,440
[camera shutters click]
641
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,920
One of those cars
was definitely Anisah's.
642
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,800
[camera shutters clicking]
643
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,360
The car in front
belonged to a gentleman
644
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,920
by the name of Mustafa Hussain.
645
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,400
[intense music]
646
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:17,040
It transpires that he is an old,
long-time associate of Anisah Ahmed.
647
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,840
Identifying Mustafa Hussain
was our first real breakthrough.
648
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,560
She's driven to this place
with someone she knows.
649
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,480
[intense music]
650
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,600
[Mustafa]
Me and Anisah were at school together.
651
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:40,680
We was in the same year.
652
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,360
{\an8}So that's how I knew her, from there.
653
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,120
[camera shutter clicks]
654
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:49,320
She was a nice person.
655
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,800
We dated for two years
and then we broke off.
656
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:54,560
Yeah, I did love her, yeah.
657
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,240
She called me and then said,
658
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,960
"Look, if me and you
get back together, I'll look after you.
659
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:01,720
You know, you won't have any problems."
660
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,120
So I was like,
"So what do you want me to do, then?"
661
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,400
That's when she said to me,
"Oh, look, I got screwed over.
662
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,160
I was with this new person.
663
00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:11,360
His name's Iqbal."
664
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,240
She mentioned that he was a bastard.
"Oh, he beat me up.
665
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,880
He attacked me. He sexually assaulted me."
666
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:20,720
She said that he physically raped her.
667
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,240
So she wanted... "Obviously,
I did need to get revenge back on him."
668
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:26,760
And that was at any cost.
669
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,600
And that's why I got sucked
into this plan of hers.
670
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,120
She mentioned emails
that he'd been sending to her
671
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:34,320
which she had created.
672
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,880
How she got him arrested for rape.
673
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,080
She says, "I've got it all under control.
674
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,240
He's gonna get fucked for this."
675
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:42,960
So she had...
She had a big plan.
676
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,640
[intense music]
677
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,560
[Iqbal] I got a call
from Wiltshire Police.
678
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,720
They explained that their investigation
679
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,000
into the allegations of rape
had concluded.
680
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:04,080
{\an8}They were not going to proceed
with the allegations.
681
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,320
There was no evidence to support them,
682
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,800
but more importantly,
that there was actually
683
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:13,720
clear and categoric evidence to show
that these allegations were malicious.
684
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,320
And that was now going to
be investigated thoroughly.
685
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,240
I was so happy.
686
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,800
I was relieved because I knew now,
687
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:28,120
the spotlight had now shifted
back to Anisah.
688
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,360
[DS Parsons] I decided we now had enough
689
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,920
to arrest Anisah and Mustafa
690
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,480
on suspicion of conspiracy to
pervert the course of justice.
691
00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,720
Anisah made
what we call a no comment interview,
692
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,600
which is, as it suggests,
693
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:54,520
every question is replied with
"No comment."
694
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:57,960
She was very calm,
695
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:00,280
obviously didn't like me.
696
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,200
There was just no emotion, no nothing.
697
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:07,400
As for Mustafa Hussain...
698
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,040
essentially he had been
699
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,840
roped in by Anisah.
700
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,320
He was besotted with Anisah.
701
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,120
Anisah used that.
702
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,560
[notification tone]
703
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:27,720
[Mustafa]
There was a lot of romantic promises.
704
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,840
"Yeah, well, I'll look after you.
705
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,680
You'll have a better life with me.
You won't be unhappy in your life again."
706
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:39,000
He talked about the GBH and the kidnap.
707
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,640
[Mustafa] I followed her to the village.
708
00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:46,840
She got out the car and said to me,
"Have you brought the knife with you?"
709
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:48,000
And I was like, "No."
710
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,400
She said, "Why not?"
I said, "I'm not doing it.
711
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,720
I can't stab somebody. Can't stab anybody.
It's not me, I'm not a killer."
712
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:58,200
She pulled the knife out of her pocket
and I was like, "No, I don't want it.
713
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,640
If you die here,
how do I prove my innocence?
714
00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:03,480
No one's going to believe me."
715
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,720
And from there she had a little tantrum,
716
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,760
she said,
"I knew you was going to ruin this.
717
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:09,720
I knew you was going to ruin my plan."
718
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:11,800
That made me think
she's a crazy-ass person.
719
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,480
It all seemed like it was a game for her.
720
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,320
I said, "You know what,
you carry on screaming, shouting,
721
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:18,720
I don't care. I'm gone."
722
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,280
And then I just got back in my car.
723
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,280
And I just drove off. I left the scene.
724
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:30,000
He stated he left
and Anisah was fine when he left.
725
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:32,600
So...
726
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,320
either Mustafa Hussain did it...
727
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:40,960
or Anisah did it herself.
728
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[intense music]
729
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[inaudible]
730
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,160
{\an8}[Iqbal] In November 2016,
731
00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:08,880
{\an8}we had a three-day trial in Northampton.
732
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:15,160
This was a civil trial
about the two injunctions.
733
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[suspenseful music]
734
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What the judge had to decide here was
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which of the two of us were
telling the truth about the harassment.
736
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:34,720
Whether I'd threatened her?
737
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,600
Whether she was stabbed?
738
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:38,160
Did Iqbal harass her?
739
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,360
And equally,
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00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:45,320
all of the things I'd complained about,
I had to prove.
741
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:52,000
I was really grateful
for Lubna coming to court.
742
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,080
{\an8}She was very broken
and she was very, very upset
743
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:59,440
but she stuck by her husband
and she supported him.
744
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:03,800
You know, it was emotional. It was hard.
745
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,280
And, um,
746
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,120
she was strong.
747
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:12,760
Anisah said that she was a victim
748
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,000
and she was terrified of me and so on
749
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:16,680
so she was behind a screen.
750
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:18,840
I represented myself.
751
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,600
And I had the opportunity
to cross examine her.
752
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,040
She was very, very intelligent.
753
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:27,920
Complete control over her emotions
754
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,320
and she was
quite forthright with the judge.
755
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,400
[suspenseful music]
756
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:40,560
After three days the trial came to an end
and the judge read out her judgment.
757
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,440
And it was in that moment
that I realized I'd won.
758
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,840
[Saima] That was a relief,
absolute relief because
759
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,240
it was so intense.
760
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,080
You know, it was such a horrible time.
761
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:12,200
The judge came back and said
I didn't kidnap anyone.
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00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:13,680
I didn't stab Anisah.
763
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:18,520
The judge found that
Anisah had lied about what she'd said
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to get the injunction against Iqbal.
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00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,640
[Iqbal] I didn't threaten to kill her.
766
00:48:25,240 --> 00:48:27,640
I didn't do any of the things
767
00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:31,800
that she then fabricated me doing.
768
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,840
It was really overwhelming
and I j...
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00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,960
I just burst into tears.
770
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,720
I mean, sobbing tears.
771
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,360
{\an8}I just believe
it was all-consuming.
772
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:54,200
Anisah Ahmed's passion
was to exact revenge upon Mr. Mohammed.
773
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,680
It was finally possible to see
774
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:01,800
at the very end of the tunnel somewhere,
you know, some light.
775
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,640
And that was a huge, huge sigh of relief.
776
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,720
[somber music]
777
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,280
It turns out
Anisah is going to offer guilty pleas
778
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,720
{\an8}to include
the false allegations of rape,
779
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:30,360
{\an8}the false allegations of GBH,
780
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,600
{\an8}the false allegations of kidnap.
781
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:34,240
{\an8}So the whole bang shoot.
782
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,680
April '21,
we had the sentencing hearing.
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00:49:41,240 --> 00:49:46,160
The judge sentenced Anisah
to life imprisonment.
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{\an8}[Nisar]
I've never ever come across somebody,
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00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:52,600
{\an8}especially a female,
786
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,960
{\an8}for that type of offending,
787
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:56,480
{\an8}receive a life sentence.
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00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,360
[Iqbal] The first person I told was Lubna.
789
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,360
She was speechless and...
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00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,560
I mean, it's not--
it's not really a happy moment
791
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,760
in the sense that
we drew pleasure from it.
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00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,080
[DS Parsons] The judge thought
she was a danger to the public
793
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:15,640
and didn't think that would change.
794
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,920
My opinion is, he was right.
795
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,360
{\an8}Having met Anisah a number of times,
796
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,760
{\an8}the one word that I would describe her as
is manipulative.
797
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,800
[Gary] I feel as if
Anisah had used me from day one.
798
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{\an8}No one should go through
what he went through
799
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{\an8}in terms of the abuse
and the allegations,
800
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,520
{\an8}which could, quite honestly,
have ruined his career.
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00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:46,240
[DS Oliver]
I think that Anisah's overriding goal
802
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:49,360
was to ruin Iqbal's life.
803
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:51,720
A life that she wanted to have with him.
804
00:50:53,720 --> 00:50:55,840
[Saima] Now maybe she'll understand,
805
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,240
"Oh, my God,
it wasn't just a small thing that I did.
806
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,840
I put these people through absolute hell."
807
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:14,640
[Mustafa] I feel bad about Mr. Iqbal.
808
00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:16,800
{\an8}He cheated, he knows better for himself.
809
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:18,360
{\an8}But he didn't deserve this.
810
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,320
I'm deeply apologetic towards him.
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00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:23,800
[DS Bennett] Nobody knows for sure
812
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,880
who actually inflicted that injury
upon Anisah Ahmed.
813
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,520
[Mustafa] I-I-I believe
she stabbed herself.
814
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:33,920
Just to prove a point.
815
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,600
I really do believe that
she went to that extent.
816
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,000
I believe, horrific as it sounds,
817
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,480
that Anisah did it herself.
818
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,400
I can't prove that,
because it was never tested in court.
819
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,320
We have no actual evidence of who did it.
820
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,320
Yeah, I absolutely believe that
821
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,720
she would have been quite capable of
inflicting that injury upon herself.
822
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:58,680
I think she did it herself.
823
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:04,120
She had done this to herself
824
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,600
because this was
the last thing available to her
825
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:08,360
to get her story taken seriously.
826
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,560
"Okay, so if he's explained the rape,
827
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,600
if he's explained the messages,
828
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:14,800
if he's got the emails, okay fine.
829
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:16,800
Well, look at this, this is genuine.
830
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:19,040
This here is
a five-inch gash across my leg.
831
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:22,000
Are you seriously going to say
I did this to myself too?"
832
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,720
She is dangerous.
833
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,320
She is really dangerous.
834
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,560
I know there will be people out there
835
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:42,400
who will say
he kind of brought this on himself.
836
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,240
I believe Iqbal had his bit on the side
837
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,400
and he was quite happy with that
until he got found out.
838
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,440
It was difficult for me to read
839
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:56,960
what the judge said about me.
840
00:52:57,640 --> 00:52:59,040
She made comments that were...
841
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:02,000
that were embarrassing
and difficult for me to read.
842
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,800
Um, but I accept them,
843
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:06,600
because it's true.
844
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:23,160
It's not the judge's fault
that I had an affair.
845
00:53:23,240 --> 00:53:25,680
That's my fault, and I own that.
846
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,640
Lubna and I are still married
and we're fortunate to have
847
00:53:32,720 --> 00:53:35,360
a loving marriage and a strong marriage.
848
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:38,040
It was a very difficult...
849
00:53:39,720 --> 00:53:42,240
thing for us,
850
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,360
for Lubna predominantly, um,
851
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:49,120
but for us as a couple to get through.
852
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:54,680
For the longest time
I thought I was sorry,
853
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:57,880
but actually,
I was sorry that I got caught.
854
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:04,760
And it took a long time to really
understand the gravity of what I'd done.
855
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:06,800
The betrayal of it...
856
00:54:07,720 --> 00:54:10,080
the callousness of cheating on your wife.
857
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:13,400
You know, I looked at Lubna and I realized
858
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,800
that I was sorry
for what I'd actually done.
859
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:19,680
[suspenseful music]
860
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:39,320
[suspenseful music]