Man harassed ex with 1,000 calls, emails over 6 weeks

One thousand ‘missed calls’ along with a thousand emails were directed to a woman by her ex-boyfriend, long after the relationship had ended.

A sentencing judge yesterday said an alarming feature of the harassment was the man turned up in the woman’s apartment when she was not home.

Ali Arafa, an Egyptian national, pleaded guilty to harassment of the young Cork woman by persistent phone calls and threats.