Search the Community

https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/predator-who-left-woman-baby-22543459 The predator who left a woman and her baby homeless at Christmas in disturbing assault Mahmun Ahmed was jailed after breaking into the woman's house and assaulting her in her own bed. Now his victim can not face going home SHARE By Rachel SmithCourt reporter 14:15, 23 DEC 2021 NEWS Enter your postcode for local news and info A woman said she has been forced to live in a hotel with her baby after a predator crept into her home and violated her 'safe haven.' Mahmun Ahmed, 33, was handed an extended prison sentence after Judge Graham Knowles QC said he posed a serious risk to lone women. His victim, who can not be identified for legal reasons, was asleep in her flat in Lancaster when Ahmed climbed in through the living room window and got into bed with her. At first she thought it was her former partner but when she turned on the bedroom light she found a complete stranger had been cuddling and kissing her. Judge Knowles said Ahmed was driven by 'entrenched attitudes to relationships' and feeling 'entitled to sexual fulfilment.' Speaking about the impact of the offence, which took place in the early hours of October 21 2021, the woman said: "As a young single parent I had little money although I was able to work hard and save for this flat. "It is a place I enjoyed spending time and making memories. I loved watching my baby growing up, learning to crawl. "This flat was my home, my safe haven, my own and my life. This has all been turned on its head by this one incident. "I was asleep in my own bed, no more than an arm's length away from where my child was asleep. "I was at my most vulnerable - I wasn't able to protect myself and I wasn't able to protect my child. Then waking up to find a man, a stranger, lying next to me in my own bed, kissing me, touching me, putting his tongue in my mouth in my house, my safe space.... "All this has left me feeling dirty and unclean, inside and out. "I constantly feel sick thinking about the situation. I don't fully know what happened before I woke up. Did the man only lie next to me? Did he touch me anywhere else? I don;t know what may have happened if I hadn't woken up. "Would he have gone further? Would he have raped me? Would he have hurt my baby? "I also don't know if this man was clean or if he had a disease. Did he have covid? "I have had to move out of my home as I no longer feel safe in my flat, the flat I have worked so hard to make my home. Everything about the flat brings back memories, distressing memories, that make me feel unsafe. "The council have so far only been able to move me into a hotel in a different town, isolated from all my support. "At night I sit in the hotel after I have put the baby to bed and sit in silence, zoning out and feeling numb. I am haunted by the 'what ifs?' "I have realised I have been drinking most nights. This is to try and help me sleep, to dull the feelings and thoughts. When I do go to bed I lie there awake for hours. "Guests in the hotel walk down the hall - every bang, crack, any noise makes me jump. I have been prescribed sleeping tablets but I am afraid to take them because I want to be able to wake up. "One of the things that keeps me going is my baby. "It stirs emotion I never thought I would feel. I hate feeling that way but I can't help it. "I break down and cry constantly, for no apparent reason. "My hair has started to fall out and my gums and mouth bleed. I put this down to the stress this situation has triggered. "I have been diagnosed with depression and have been referred for counselling. I find myself asking, 'why me?' I did nothing to deserve this. "This man has taken away my trust in humanity."