I don’t know how to tell you this but I’m getting stalked. Baby Reindeer I, opening scene, Netflix 2024
Reindeer: So what do you do then?
Martha: I’m a lawyer. ibid.
Every day now Martha would come in. ibid.
I began to love her laugh. Obsessed with it. ibid.
Then came her emails. Around 80 a day. ibid.
Seeing her madness play out like that left me with a sense of unease. ibid.
Do you ever want to unzip people and climb inside them? ibid. her to him
I love you … I said too much, haven’t I? ibid.
I had a convicted stalker stalking me. ibid.
We’re all varying degrees of weird, aren’t we? Pretending to be human. Baby Reindeer II
It was incredible really just how things started falling apart. ibid.
I blocked Martha on Facebook and then took some time off from the pub … I still felt her grope for days afterwards. The smell of her neck sweat as she pressed me up against the wall. And why did I freeze? Why did I just let it happen? Baby Reindeer III
If you continue this bullshit any longer, I’ll call the police. ibid. Reindeer to Martha
Yes I do blame you. You love drama. ibid. Keeley
And it all just came back to those same feelings of empathy that got me here. ibid. Reindeer
Fucking hell, who unlocked the doors of Broadmoor? ibid. Martha’s club invasion
Do you understand? Now get the fuck out of my life. ibid. Reindeer
It had taken me six months to report Martha. Baby Reindeer IV
The first time I came up was like nothing I’d ever experienced. It felt like a beam of divine light shone down from space through Darrien’s roof and into his living room exactly where I was sitting, as warm Indian Ocean waves passed up and down my body. ibid.
Unless we can see some proper evidence there’s nothing we can do. ibid. rozzer
I hate to do this to you Donny but I think you’d better move out. Baby Reindeer V, landlady
So serious she once stalked a policeman. ibid. rozzer
Strange erie silence. Weeks went by and I started to panic. ibid. Reindeer
This is still a mentally ill woman we’re talking about here. ibid. Teri
It was time to take matters into my own hands. Baby Reindeer VI
If you leave my family alone, I will hang your curtains tonight. ibid. Reindeer to Martha
Martha had taped everything. ibid. Reindeer
This sticking plaster for all of life’s weirdoes. ibid.
Comedian Has Epic Breakdown. Baby Reindeer VII, Youtube
Martha got my number. ibid.
Martha was sentenced to nine months in prison. ibid.
Solihull, West Midlands, 2018: Raneem Oudeh anxiously calls police. Her estranged husband is stalking her. She has every reason to be frightened. Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan s4e5: Janbaz Tarin, CI 2022
Played out on camera the real-life drama of a husband intent on controlling his wife. ibid.
Hundreds of thousands of people are stalked online every year. We’ve been investigating one online stalker. She posted thousands of abusive messages. Told malicious lies. And ruined lives. Panorama: My Online Stalker, Youtube 2024
Solilull, West Midlands: It had begun with a marriage of two people in their twenties. The story of Raneem Oudeh and Janbaz Tarin was to see a manhunt and a late night swoop by police. David Wilson, Murder UK: Married to Your Stalker, ITV 2025
It’s about her, Raneem, being a possession as opposed to a sentient being. ibid.
A marriage clouded by fear and control. ibid.
‘He’s got three children and a pregant wife in another country.’ ibid. comment
‘He’s relentless. He’s obsessive.’ ibid.
‘She’s in a fight for her life at this point.’ ibid.
[Ambulance call]: We’ve got a female with a single laceration to the right thigh. There is clearly bloodstains on a white pillow. This is where [car] the victim is saying that she’s been attacked. The Real Fatal Attraction, Netflix 2025
It was intended to be fun, no commitments, no strings attached. ibid. Iqbal Mohammed
Iqbal had his bit on the side. And he was quite happy with that until he got found out. ibid. rozzer
Iqbal was arrested for five offences of rape. ibid. solicitor
I did mistreat her and I accept that. ibid. Iqbal
Anisah Ahmed’s passion was to exact revenge on Mr Mohammed. ibid. rozzer
The truth is I was really scared of her. ibid. Iqbal
That’s when I knew that Anisah had to be interviewed under caution. ibid. rozzer
Anisah Hmed harrassed the claimant within the meaning of the Protection Harassment Act. ibid. Judge Hampton QC
I didn’t kidnap anyone. I didn’t stab Anisah. The judge found that Anisah had lied about what she’d said. ibid. Iqbal
Anisah Ahmed appears at Oxford Crown Court charged with perverting the course of justice and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. ibid. caption
The judge sentenced Anisah to life imprisonment. ibid.
In November 2021 Anisah Ahmed’s discretionary life sentence was reduced on appeal to 10 years. ibid.