Alum Rock husband jailed for terror campaign against wife

Left Toquir Farooq of Alum Rock; Double arson, threats to kill, criminal damage and goldfish murder. Got off lucky with four and a half years. Was the 6 months for the goldfish? Some people!

The Birmingham Mail reports:

A BIRMINGHAM man who carried out a “vindictive and spiteful” campaign against his estranged wife, including setting fire to cars outside the house where she was living, is starting a four-and a-half-year jail sentence.

During an orgy of damage Toquir Farooq also threatened to kill his wife of five years, Zaine Ahmed, ransacked the former matrimonial home and killed her pet goldfish.

Birmingham Crown Court Judge Mayo told him: “I have to sentence you for offences which took place in May last year as part of a campaign to victimise and terrify your wife and her immediate family.