Life imitates art as spurned lover jailed over false claims of rape

A BARRISTER was jailed after attempting to falsely frame her married lover of rape.

Anisah Ahmed, 33, claimed her exlover Iqbal Mohammed, 38, had sexually assaulted her on several occasions in a “detailed and convincing” false report.

She also recruited her ex-boyfriend Mustafa Hussain, 34, to buy a phone in the victim’s name to support her false allegation of receiving threatening calls.

Oxford crown court also heard that Ahmed set up fake email accounts in the victim’s name and used them to send herself threatening emails.

Mohammed, who is also a barrister, said his ordeal was similar to the 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction. He added that police told him that Ahmed may have targeted him because he had been the star of a BBC documentary called The Barristers. The series, that aired in 2008, had law students including Mohammed taking their first steps into the profession after passing the Bar Vocational Course.

Ahmed met Mohammed, who is married, through LinkedIn more than six years ago and embarked on a relationship with him in 2014, the court heard. When the snubbed lawyer found out that her lover was married, she began a campaign of revenge described in court as “malicious” and “even evil.”

Ahmed was handed a discretionary life sentence with a minimum term of four years and six months.

Judge Michael Gledhill said, “This case clearly involved very careful planning to destroy the personal and professional life of the victim.

“False allegations can have dreadful consequences on an innocent person who has committed no crime. Being wrongly accused of harassment is serious enough. But accusing him of rape is in quite another category.”