Prisoner who harassed ex-girlfriend may have breached ruling

A man who had part of his three-year jail term suspended in a harassment case in which he sent a thousand emails to his ex-girlfriend may have breached the terms of the sentence with alleged attempts to contact her from prison.

The case against Ali Arafa, an Egyptian national, was re-entered at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday. He is serving a sentence for harassment of a Cork woman by persistent phonecalls and threats.

She received 1,000 missed calls and 1,000 emails from him long after the relationship had ended.