An Oxford lawyer who made up rape and kidnap allegations in an "evil" campaign of harassment against her former lover has been released from prison.

Anisah Ahmed was given the life term and ordered to serve at least four and a half years’ imprisonment for what the judge branded as “malicious, even evil” actions.

The 37-year-old had become obsessed with victim Iqbal Mohammed after the breakdown of an affair between the pair.

She set up email accounts in victim Iqbal Mohammed’s name and bombarded herself with messages in a successful bid to get him arrested.

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Anisah Ahmed has been released from prison.Anisah Ahmed has been released from prison. (Image: Thames Valley Police)

When her actions were unmasked she went on to falsely accuse him of rape and also claimed he’d tried to kidnap her.

At Ahmed’s sentencing hearing in the spring, Judge Gledhill said: “The lengths you went to, to exact revenge on Mr Mohammed were almost beyond belief.”

She became the first person to receive life for perverting the course of justice in April 2021, but her sentence was overturned by the Court of Appeal seven months later.

It was changed and her prison term was set to 10 years but Ahmed has now been released causing her victim to worry.

Speaking to The Sun, Mr Mohammed from Birmingham, said: “I can't believe nobody bothered to bloody tell me this before. It's unbelievable. I've been completely left in the dark.

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Oxford Crown Court.Oxford Crown Court. (Image: NQ)

“I don't feel safe at all. I feel we've been completely let down and it's completely disgraceful that this can happen.

“I'm extremely worried and dreading telling my wife because I think she'll be really, really scared.”

The 41-year-old previously compared his ordeal to the 1987 thriller film Fatal Attraction and explained he was no longer able to watch the movie.

Glenn Close's character Alex in the well-known flick stalks and terrorises attorney Michael Douglas' Dan following a one-night stand.

It is believed that Ahmed first got in touch with her victim in 2008 after seeing him on the BBC series The Barristers.

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She then sent her CV to him, asking for career advice via email as well as LinkedIn but things took a turn in 2013.

The court previously heard that Ahmed and Mr Mohammed, who is still with his wife, then had a nine-month relationship together in 2014.

Yet after she discovered that her new partner was in fact married, she began a elaborate revenge plot online which led to the emails being falsified.

In one final attempt to frame Mr Mohammed, Ahmed staged her own kidnap and stabbing and even roped in an ex-boyfriend as an accomplice.

This ex then confessed to police that he had been ordered him to knife her three times but he refused leading Ahmed to allegedly stab herself causing an injury to her thigh which almost severed her femoral artery.

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