Serial stalker gets two years for threatening woman
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Disturbed serial stalker Zaheer Ahmad — who has made Islamist terrorist threats in the past and threatened a judge after being convicted — was sentenced Tuesday to two years less a day for terrorizing a former female friend.
Ahmad launched a profane tirade in court last month after Justice Carole Brown found him guilty of criminal harassment, saying “his barrage of e-mails seemed unrelenting.” He was locked up in jail after uttering those profanities.
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He flared up again while the judge imposed her sentence Tuesday, telling Brown: “Your head must be up your a–.”
When she ordered him to stay silent, he replied: “F— you.”
In recounting the evidence against Ahmad, Brown referred to two shockingly violent threats Ahmad made to his 46-year-old victim, who reported him to police last year. The judge also alluded to the veiled threat Ahmad made against her in court, insisting he has “no insights” into the harm he inflicted upon his victim.
Ahmad was locked up June 23, 2016 when he was arrested for criminal harassment of the former female friend. When she ended their relationship, he sent sexist, misogynistic and racist e-mails and called hundreds of times, asking for sex, meetings, or a visit.
“I should walk over to 52 Division with a machine gun and open fire, then Molotov cocktail that stupid … whore to the ground. Heil Hitler,” Brown quoted from an e-mail that Ahmad sent to the victim on June 21, 2016.
The woman, whose identity is covered by a publication ban, said he directed a lesbian slur at a neighbour in a same-sex relationship and that it was particularly chilling because it happened after a mass shooting at a gay night club in Orlando.
Ahmad, 38, was freed on bail in June this year after Justice Susan Himel ruled he had already spent more time — roughly a year — in jail than he’d likely get if convicted. Brown subtracted 19 months of time already served from Ahmad’s sentence, so he has five months less a day remaining.
He has been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder and cannabis-induced delusional disorder, court heard.
Ahmad, both a Canadian citizen and Austrian citizen, had threatened to blow up the Austrian embassy — and any Toronto or Ottawa courthouse — after e-mailing the Austrian embassy Nazi symbols in Ottawa in 2015. He was on probation for a previous harassment conviction and was convicted of failng to comply.
“I am already willing, able and wanting to send a few suicide bombers or myself into any courthouse in Toronto and/or Ottawa as Allah is my witness,” stated Ahmad in the February 2015 e-mail.
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