Highflyer Ghumman was royally
smitten when he met 28-year-old Hannah Rhind, a PR executive
at the British headquarters of the pharmaceutical firm Roche
– yes that Roche – at a networking dinner at
the RAC Club in Pall Mall in 2009.
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The
couple apparently went on a single date, but Hannah
was not mutually smitten. |
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Ghumman then started harassing her with
endless text messages and emails, and in August 2010 Hannah
and her family had enough and took legal action.
A British court imposed a restraining order preventing Ghumman
from making any contact with Hannah or her family.
But this did not deter Ghumman, and in December
last year he followed Hannah to Cape Town, where she was
spending time with her parents at their £1million
holiday home in Clifton.
In the early hours of January
14, Ghummam launched an attack on the family home, hurling
two petrol bombs at the residence.
In true Bollywood fashion, he also slashed three tyres of
the family car that was parked in the driveway.
Prior to the attack, Ghumman had been posing
as a journalist and convinced local journalists that he
was doing a feature on crime and gangs in South Africa,
and that he was keen to meet a hit man who was currently
a member of a gang, and had a reputation for extreme violence.
Ghumman appeared in the Cape Town Magistrates
court for the fifth time yesterday, but the case was again
remanded to February 24th, because one of the state's witnesses
failed to pitch up for an identity parade.
Take note Bollywood.
The movie scripts are flowing freely in Cape Town.
