Cambridge stalker jailed for two years

A Cambridge University student has been jailed for two years for stalking a fellow undergraduate.

Cambridge Crown Court heard how Azeem Malik, 23, who had a "pathological infatuation with his victim", again breached a restraining order not to go near Natalie Soule or enter the city of Cambridge.

Judge Jonathan Haworth told the former King's College maths student: "The history of your harassment is appalling. Stalking her has become an end in itself." Malik, of Romford, Essex, has now been jailed four times since January 2003 for stalking Miss Soule.

Incidents included letting himself into the physics student's room, bombarding her with phone calls, and being found in her parents' kitchen in Exeter. The judge also issued a new restraining order. Miss Soule, 22, was not in court.

Jason Coulter, defending, said Malik's life had been destroyed by his infatuation.