Agencies
LONDON: Sahil Bhavnani, a 22-year-old Indian-origin engineering student at Oxford Brookes University, has been expelled and sentenced to four months for stalking a female nursing student.
He wrote her a 100-page letter, making threats to her if she didn’t marry him.
The Oxford Crown Court on Thursday handed him a four-month sentence suspended for two years as he is leaving for Hong Kong after his expulsion by his university.
The court also imposed a five-year restraining order on Bhavnani.
“If you breach that order, there is a maximum of five years’ imprisonment to serve. I hope that your obsession with her is over,” Judge Nigel Daly of the Oxford Crown Court told him.
The victim told the court that she was scared of being sexually assaulted by Bhavnani. She said she repeatedly told Bhavnani that she was not interested in any relationship with him.
“I started getting six-minute-long voice messages saying he was going to make me his wife, make me have his children, make me live with him,” the woman told BBC.
In his obsession with the nursing student, Bhavnani wrote her a 100-page letter containing threats copied from poetry found online.
