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Farzana Yakubi, a woman who reported her stalker multiple times and was murdered.

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The new crime of stalking

Ms Yakubi made an online report to police complaining about harassment. About a month after that online report, Ms Yakubi noticed Mr Singh following her at a mall and she asked a security officer for assistance. That same month, in December 22, Mr Singh used a social media account to send Ms Yakubi a video taken outside her home demonstrating he knew her address.

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The new crime of stalking

saying he would give her 365 days to fall in love with him. He threatened to throw acid on her face. He also added Ms Yakubi's family and friends as social media links and attempted to communicate with Ms Yakubi through those intermediaries.

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The new crime of stalking

He then, from that point, contacted her using the social media application Instagram. Eventually she blocked him through Instagram. He then created a myriad of new accounts and continued to contact her. He started to threaten Ms Yakubi in his messages. He threatened to kidnap her.

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The new crime of stalking

When you go to police to report you've got a stalker, you expect them to take it seriously. But for Auckland law student, Farzana Yakubi, they didn't. Even after she reported her stalker three times. And two weeks later, she was dead. And the man that she reported as her stalker had become her murderer. So the advantage of this new, strong...