Bogus doctor ‘blackmailed Muslim women over secret sex tapes’ hears Cardiff Crown Court

Farhan Mirza (pictured arriving at Cardiff Crown Courtroom), 38, is accused of focusing on three ladies

An Asian man secretly filmed himself having intercourse with Muslim ladies he met on a courting web site earlier than threatening to place the footage on-line, a courtroom has heard.

'Sexual predator' Farhan Mirza, 38, is accused of focusing on three ladies, secretly filming them throughout intimate conditions after which threatening to carry disgrace upon them and their households by publishing the movies. 

Cardiff Crown Courtroom heard that Mirza - who met the ladies on Asian courting website Shaadi.com - then demanded the ladies give him cash and items to cease the movies being launched.  

Mirza, of Abertillery, South Wales, is now standing trial accused of voyeurism, blackmail, theft and fraud, together with pretending to be a physician to be able to commit a string of offences.  

On the primary day of the trial, the jury of 4 males and eight ladies watched a sequence of video clips, which included one girl having intercourse with the defendant and one other alleged sufferer getting dressed after having had a bathe.

Timothy Evans, prosecuting, advised the jury advised that the case was very delicate and the three alleged victims, who can't be recognized for authorized causes, have been Muslim ladies with connections to different international locations.

'It's the prosecution's case that Mr Mirza is a specific form of sexual predator and he chooses his victims rigorously,' he mentioned.

'Every of those women, to a better or lesser extent, ended up having a relationship with Mr Mirza. The prosecution recommend that through these relationships he tried to get cash and companies from them.

'The place, the prosecution recommend, is that this. Due to their non secular and ethnic backgrounds he focused them due to the fear, embarrassment and humiliation that every of those women would have felt of their minds by what this defendant did to them.

'He put every of them ready the place there have been movies of them, which they did not find out about till he landed them with potential humiliation.

'It's one factor to steer a companion that can assist you out or beg. It's reprehensible usually to mislead a companion to attain one thing and what the prosecution suggests is that Mr Mirza went additional than that.'

He allegedly advised one girl he was a 'rich physician' however used a pretend title.

Their relationship, which lasted just a few months, ended after she discovered about his lies.

However the courtroom heard he saved 'embarassing' footage - exhibiting her in only a tub towel earlier than taking it off to placed on her bra which she says she by no means knew was being filmed.

The 2 ladies have been contacted by police after an investigation involving a 3rd girl who reported being threatened by Mirza.

She advised police Mirza had threatened to launch a video to her household in Pakistan of them having intercourse.

She additionally mentioned Mirza persuaded her to offer him 1000's of kilos in money throughout their relationship, after which blackmailed her with the intercourse video if she did not proceed funding him after they break up up.

She mentioned she discovered £70,000 in money in his wardrobe.

He added: 'After they break up up, he demanded £2,000, telling her there have been "penalties" if she did not pay.'

Cardiff Crown Courtroom heard that Mirza (seen leaving the courtroom) is accused of voyeurism, blackmail, theft and fraud - together with pretending to be a physician - to be able to commit a string of offences

Mirza allegedly threatened to make her 'well-known' by releasing the intercourse tape - and the courtroom heard she continued giving him cash for 2 years till she went to police.

He was additionally mentioned to have stolen jewelry, garments, and a laptop computer from her residence.

Police arrested Mirza after he allegedly started sending the girl a video exhibiting 'numerous photographs of loss of life' which she took as a menace.

His laptop computer and telephone have been confiscated, and knowledge on them led police to the 2 different ladies.

Mirza, of Abertillery, South Wales, denies 4 costs of blackmail, three of voyeurism, certainly one of theft and certainly one of fraud by false illustration.

The trial, anticipated to final 5 days, continues.

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