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Outlook: Stalked By My Ex-Boyfriend

Alison Hewitt and Al Amin Dhalla

02/09/2014

Stalked By My Ex-Boyfriend

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Alison Hewitt and family suffered a campaign of terror. Her parents' home was set on fire

Alison Hewitt of Brighton, UK, tells Matthew Bannister how her ex-boyfriend Al Amin Dhalla, a finance worker from Canada, stalked her after she broke off the relationship in 2010.

In 2009 Alison Hewitt was living in Brighton in the south of England, training hard to become a doctor. Finding it difficult to meet people with her irregular shifts, she decided to try to meet a partner through an exclusive dating agency. The man she met - Al Amin Dhalla - was a seemingly respectable financial worker who had moved to the UK from Canada, and they ended up living together for several months.  But when Alison tried to break off the relationship at the end of 2010, Al began a campaign of terror against Alison and her family. She's now written a book about her experience called Stalked.  

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