Who is Iqbal Mohammed from The Real Fatal Attraction? Barrister whose reputation was threatened by ex-lover Anisah Ahmed

IQBAL Mohammed is simply a barrister whose vocation was astir brought to an extremity by a strategy hatched by an ex-lover. 

An ITV play named The Real Fatal Attraction examines the terrifying crippled that Anisah Ahmed devised, which saw him arrested successful his ain chambers. 

Superstar barrister

Iqbal earned his bachelor’s grade successful instrumentality from the University of Warwick successful 2005, earlier going connected to walk the Bar Vocational Course astatine BPP Law School successful 2007. 

He specializes successful commercialized law, which helium studied successful 2017 astatine the University of Warwick. 

The barrister is 1 of the astir respected successful his tract and has been nominated for Commercial Lawyer of the Year by the Society of Asian Lawyers successful 2017, alongside a information for Barrister of the twelvemonth by Birmingham Law Society successful 2019. 

Life seemed cleanable for the high-flying barrister, who joined his woman successful 2013, but everything changed erstwhile helium received a “connect” petition connected LinkedIn. 

Meeting Anisah Ahmed

Ahmed followed up her “connect” petition with an email sent consecutive to Iqbal’s inbox which was filled with probing questions astir the lawyer’s career.

Put disconnected by the “haughty” code of her questioning, Iqbal decided to disregard her messages. 

She tried again 3 years later, utilizing a caller illustration representation and simply said “hi” successful her request.

Iqbal decided to respond, opening a flirty speech which yet led to a full-blown nine-month-long affair. 

Ahmed said that she was unaware that the barrister was joined and Iqbal said she was furious erstwhile the information came out. 

She contacted Iqbal’s woman and told her astir the affair, earlier launching an elaborate revenge crippled that astir ruined Iqbal’s life.

Iqbal is arrested

Ahmed forged emails from Iqbal’s enactment relationship and claimed that the barrister was threatening to station intimate pictures of her online.

When her actions prompted an probe by the police into her harassment of Iqbal, she decided to instrumentality things 1 measurement further. 

Iqbal was arrested successful his chambers successful June 2015, successful beforehand of his colleagues, and questioned by the constabulary for hours for a transgression helium did not commit.

Unbeknownst to him, Ahmed had falsely accused him of rape and his wife’s location was being searched for evidence. 

Ahmed past faked a kidnapping to marque it look arsenic if Iqbal had hired a hitman to termination her.

In existent fact, she had hired an ex-boyfriend to marque the fake kidnapping look much believable but adjacent helium was incapable to spell done with the astir sinister portion of her plan. 

Ahmed wanted him to stab her, to marque her allegations adjacent much believable, but she decided to instrumentality matters into her ain hands erstwhile helium refused. 

She stabbed herself successful the leg, narrowly avoiding an indispensable artery, and called the constabulary who rushed to the scene. 

On the mode to the hospital, she made definite to notation Iqbal’s sanction truthful helium would beryllium incriminated. 

Eventually, Ahmed’s strategy was unraveled and she was handed a beingness condemnation for her crimes. 

The charges against Iqbal were dropped and helium was capable to reconcile with his wife, aft a play of separation. 

The Real Fatal Attraction

The shocking transgression has been likened to the crippled of the 1987 movie Fatal Attraction, which saw Glenn Close’s quality Alex Forrest stalk Michael Douglas’ Dan Gallagher. 

Fatal Attraction became 1 of the astir iconic films of the decennary erstwhile Alex boiled Dan’s rabbit successful a cookware connected the stove. 

An ITV bid named The Real Fatal Attraction, which dives into Ahmed’s crimes, volition aerial connected November 13, 2024.
Fans tin rewatch the bid aft it airs unrecorded done ITV’s streaming work ITVX.