A woman has told how she screamed when she found her “obsessive” ex-boyfriend standing in her bedroom doorway after he crept into her house.

Barber shop manager Ibrahim Mujde, from Ramsgate, had gone to extreme efforts to contact her – using 50 different phone numbers.

Canterbury Crown Court heard how the jealous 40-year-old then snuck into her home, before fleeing when the woman screamed.

However, alerted a short while later to a noise downstairs, she went to investigate and found the stalker climbing in through a window.

He ran off for a second time after she threatened to report him to police, only to message her to say: "You make me run like a kid."

Prosecutor Antony Hook told the court Mujde had not reacted "very well" to being jilted four weeks earlier and thereafter waged a stalking campaign against the woman.

"He continually telephoned her, left messages and sent her texts far beyond any reasonable extent," said Mr Hook.

"She blocked him but he used a total of 54 different numbers to try to contact her during that period.

"He also took to loitering around her home and work addresses, and would approach her, becoming angry and abusive.

"On four days he stood opposite her house or at the end of her street waiting for her. He would then ask to resume their relationship before becoming verbally abusive.

"He would follow her to work and at the end of her working day he would be outside and follow her home again."

The court heard Mujde, who also pestered the woman's children, was believed to have got into her home on October 3 through a door which had not been shut properly.

‘On four days he stood opposite her house or at the end of her street waiting for her...’

"At 1pm that day she was at home and suddenly saw the defendant standing in her bedroom doorway. She screamed and he fled," Mr Hook said.

At the time of his relentless pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, Mujde was on bail for twice breaching a five-year stalking protection order (SPO) in relation to a previous partner.

That had been imposed in June 2021, but not as a result of any conviction, and banned him from a large area of Thanet - save for a small area of Ramsgate.

He was also required to inform the authorities of his address.

Two breaches of that order related to him being in a prohibited location on two consecutive days in November last year.

Police then found a photo on his phone of him outside the Rose in June pub in Margate in September this year - a third breach - before he flouted the order on two further occasions, including failing to give police his correct home address.

Mujde, of York Street, Ramsgate, later admitted stalking and five breaches of the SPO.

His former girlfriend did not provide an impact statement for the sentencing hearing on Monday but his lawyer told the court the victim regarded him as "vulnerable" with mental health issues.

"She sees him as someone who becomes obsessed by going down a rabbit hole and simply cannot get out," said Maggie Biglou, defending.

She added that Mujde, who had been in prison since his arrest in October, had himself owned up to his jealousy, particularly towards the woman's children, and expressed feelings of "worthlessness, loneliness and rejection".

Imposing a 12-month jail term suspended for two years, Recorder Edmund Fowler said his stalking behaviour had been "persistent".

But in explaining his decision to spare him immediate custody, the judge added: "It will be of greater benefit to have the sentence of imprisonment hanging over your head while you receive the assistance you obviously need to tackle your obsessive nature in relationships".

Mujde was ordered to comply with the Building Better Relationships programme, 30 rehabilitation activity requirements, a six-month alcohol treatment order and a GPS-monitored tag for the same period of time in respect of the existing SPO exclusion zone.

Speaking to KentOnline after the hearing, his ex-partner said she feels sorry for him.

“He is definitely a very ill man, mentally,” she said.

“I have no doubt that he will do this same thing to his future girlfriend because the previous one suffered it.”

The woman also agreed with the decision not to send Mujde to prison.

“It is no good just locking someone away for a period of time for them to come back the same ill person,” she added.

“No one looks at what is behind this sort of behaviour – where is it starting from and why.

“There is enough punishment but never any cure for prevention.”