TV EXPLORER STALKED BY OBSESSIVE DOCTOR FOR THREE MONTHS
Levison Wood left ‘looking over his shoulder’ and fearing for family
A DOCTOR has admitted stalking TV explorer Levison Wood in a three-month campaign of harassment that left him ‘constantly looking over his shoulder’.
Fiza Jabeen obsessively contacted the former Painsley Catholic College student, who is originally from Forsbrook, on social media.
This was despite being handed a restraining order after she contacted his parents and an ex-partner.
Jabeen, aged 36, from Harborne, Birmingham, admitted harassment and stalking at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
In March, Mr Wood complained on social media about the abuse he was receiving from Jabeen, and revealed he had contacted West Midlands
Police after she threatened his parents. On June 9, Jabeen was made the subject of a restraining order from Birmingham and Solihull Magistrates’ Court, banning her from contacting Mr Wood.
But she breached the order only a month later after attending his home in Surrey on July 10.
Misba Majid, prosecuting, told the court the pair were not known to one another and they had never met before Jabeen began the harassment.
The prosecutor said Jabeen had attended the explorer’s house at about 1pm after finding his address through Companies House, and approached him as he was walking his dog.
“The defendant identified herself as Fiza Jabeen and said she wanted to come to his address for a cup of tea and to use the internet, she said.
“Mr Wood was understandably shocked and concerned given that the defendant lives in Birmingham, and he contacted the police.”
In a short statement to police, Mr Wood said he felt he was ‘constantly looking over his shoulder’ and said he was concerned for both his and his family’s safety.
Julian Young, for Jabeen, told the court his client had significant mental health problems, adding that her issues had not been addressed sufficiently at her previous court appearances.
District Judge Nicholas Rimmer declined jurisdiction of Jabeen’s case and remanded her into custody ahead of her sentencing at Kingston Crown Court on a date yet to be set.
He ordered a pre-sentence report and a psychiatric report be prepared before her next appearance.