Scorned female barrister, 37, who was jailed for life after her 'Fatal Attraction' plot to frame her ex-lover with false rape, kidnap and stabbing claims is released after less than four years behind

A scorned female barrister who was jailed for her life after plotting to frame her ex-lover with false rape, kidnap and stabbing claims has been freed after spending less than four years behind bars.

Anisah Ahmed, 37, was handed a life sentence after staging her own kidnapping and stabbing in a 'comprehensive and orchestrated' revenge campaign against fellow barrister Iqbal Mohammed, 41, after finding out he had a wife.

She became the first person to receive life for perverting the course of justice in April 2021, but her sentence was overturned by the Court of Appeal seven months later, who changed her prison term to 10 years.

Now in a devastating blow to her victim, Ahmed, from Oxford, has been released from prison after spending less than four years in jail. She is under a home detention curfew, which she means she has to wear an electronic tag and is restricted to what times she can leave the house.

Mr Mohammed, from Birmingham , was informed of the update by The Sun , which he told: 'I can't believe nobody bothered to bloody tell me this before. It's unbelievable. I've been completely left in the dark.'

He added: 'I don't feel safe at all. I feel we've been completely let down and it's completely disgraceful that this can happen.

'I'm extremely worried and dreading telling my wife because I think she'll be really, really scared.'

Mr Mohammed has previously compared his ordeal to the the 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction, explaining he had been unable to watch the film as 'it was just like what happened to me.'

In the film, Glenn Close's character Alex stalks and terrorises attorney Dan, played by Michael Douglas, his wife and child after a one-night stand.

It is believed that Ahmed first contacted Mr Mohammed after watching him on the 2008 BBC docuseries The Barristers.

She sent him her CV and asked for career advice via email and LinkedIn but their relationship turned flirty in 2013.

Ahmed and Mr Mohammed, who is still with his wife, embarked upon a nine-month relationship with him in 2014, the court previously heard.

However, it soon emerged that her lover was married and the snubbed lawyer began an elaborate campaign of revenge described in court as 'malicious' and 'even evil.'

The twisted plot saw the qualified barrister send intimate messages of her lover's affair to his wife and colleagues, before emailing his Head of Chambers demanding an investigation into his integrity.

Ahmed's scorn took a more sinister turn when she created fake emails to support her false claims which made it look like they were sent by the victim threatening her, amounting to 'blackmail.'

But after the emails were found to be falsified, she then accused Mr Mohammed of raping her on several occasions, giving detailed and convincing accounts to investigators.

In a final, desperate bid to frame her ex-lover, Ahmed then staged her own kidnap and stabbing — roping in an ex-boyfriend as an accomplice — who confessed to police she had ordered him to knife her three times.

When he refused, fearing he might accidentally kill her, Ahmed is believed to have stabbed herself — almost severing her femoral artery with a horrific injury to her thigh.

She told police Mr Mohammed had ordered the attack on her, later producing a forged confession from an imaginary hitman.

Fortunately, her plot was foiled, and Ahmed was convicted for perverting the course of justice.

Sentencing her at Oxford Crown Court, Judge Michael Gledhill previously said: 'It appears that Ahmed had no idea that Mohammed was married.

'When she found out, she felt utterly betrayed and took her revenge by putting into effect a comprehensive and orchestrated plan to destroy him - both professionally and personally.'

Mr Mohammed, who the court heard became suicidal during the ordeal, had been publicly arrested at his barrister chambers before he was taken to a police station and locked in a cell for seven hours, the judge heard.

After Mr Mohammed's chambers instructed IT experts to search the chambers' computers, they discovered that the email evidence had been falsified and police arrested Ahmed for harassment.

She later admitted that she had created the fake emails but persisted in the lie that Mohammed was still harassing her.

When it was decided to instead prosecute Ahmed for harassment, far from stopping her campaign of destruction - she escalated it.

The disturbing case is set to be shown in a new ITV documentary, The Real Fatal Attraction.