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March 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Reacting to the decision Miss Rhind, 30, described herself as being “more than relieved… I am elated”. She added: “It is so important that the judge gave this verdict because he [Ghumman] is dangerous. He’s been a danger to me and a danger to my family for years.”
Ghumman, a former fund manager at the Japanese firm Daiwa Asset Management, is now in a South African prison having been found guilty of an extraordinary twin-pronged murder plot that his trial heard was “worthy of Hollywood”. He will be sentenced in May.
Cape Town Magistrates’ Court heard that the Australian citizen’s obsession with Miss Rhind started in March 2009 when the pair sat opposite one another at a mutual friend’s dinner party in central London.
Ghumman was clearly interested in her and afterwards inundated her with email, phone, text and Facebook messages.
They were clear warning signs. But Miss Rhind, who enjoyed a privileged upbringing in South Africa and worked in public relations for the Roche pharmaceuticals company, was unaware of their portent.
Naturally open-hearted, she remained polite and friendly even as she batted off his unwanted advances. Eventually, however, she was worn down by his persistence.
Even after two months of unwanted calls and emails, she included him among those of her Facebook contacts able to view details of a wine tasting event she planned to attend at Harrods’ Knightsbridge store.
Unfortunately for her, Ghumman was the only one of her “friends” to turn up – an outcome which the infatuated Australian convinced himself she had planned and intended.
Over the following months his harassment campaign intensified. He called her constantly and sent bizarre, rambling emails in which he ranted about their non-existent “relationship”.
Miss Rhind tried to deflect his attentions, but eventually agreed to meet him for a picnic because, as she told the court, she had “run out of excuses as to why I couldn’t meet him.”
It was only she arrived for the picnic lunch that she discovered it was to be held in a cemetery. She feigned a bout of hay fever in a desperate bid to escape. As she was leaving that Ghumman grabbed her and, to Hannah’s horror, tried to kiss her.
The intervention of her father Philip, 57, only made things worse as Ghumman started to send abusive messages to him. “It was outrageous stuff, pure poison,” the British businessman told the court.
After months of lobbying the police to take their problem seriously the Rhinds were overjoyed when Ghumman was, in October 2010, convicted of harassment at Westminster Magistrates’ Court and forbidden from contacting the family. But instead of bringing the harassment to a halt, it proved instead to be just the start of something even worse.
Just four days later Ghumman, who blamed Mr Rhind for “coming between” himself and Miss Rhind, wrote another email in which he threatened that “whatever is done to me…. will be repaid with interest”.
In January last year he travelled to Cape Town where Mr Rhind, who is the chief executive of a Hong Kong-based oil exploration firm, now lives with his wife Deborah.
Posing as a freelance photojournalist called Michael Kirkham, Ghumman trawled the city’s underworld to find someone prepared to kill Mr Rhind. He used reports of the “honeymoon hijacking” murder of Anni Dewani as an indication of the type of cold-blooded killer he was looking for.
“I want to meet someone who has absolutely no compunction about behaving with appalling violence”, Ghumman emailed an unwitting middleman. “The type of individuals who carjacked Anni and Shrien Dewani… would be ideal,” he wrote.
Ghumman eventually agreed a fee of R10,000 (£840) with a local man called Thobile Yalezo. But the alleged gangster pulled out of the murder plot, leaving Ghumman to try and complete the mission alone.
On the night of Jan 14 last year he threw three petrol bombs at the Rhinds’ three storey, seafront villa in the city’s upmarket Clifton suburb. Each bomb was sealed with tape emblazoned with the slogan “4 Hannah”.
But Cape Town’s notoriously fierce south easterly wind was blowing particularly hard that evening and the flames did not take.
Mr Rhind was unaware of the attempts to kill him until 12 days later when the “hitman” Yalezo appeared his door to warn him – far too late – that “a journalist called Michael” wanted him dead.
“It was chilling,” Mr Rhind said: “This guy turned up at my door and said ‘We know all about you. There’s someone who wants to hurt you, do some bad things to you, to do an urgent hit.'”
Women’s rights campaigners have long claimed that existing laws are inadequate to deal with the stalkers, and particularly the estimated 10 per cent of stalkers whose obsessive behaviour worsens when they are confronted.
The Prime Minister’s announcement that he is to introduce two new offences – one of stalking and another of stalking where there is a fear of violence – are a long overdue recognition, they say, of the problem’s seriousness.
Miss Rhind has been so deeply affected by Ghumman’s actions that she has now made a new life for herself away from Britain.
However, in order to seek some psychological closure, she forced herself to attend most of the banker’s drawn-out trial for fraud, incitement to murder, attempted murder and malicious injury to property.
In the cramped environment of a tiny courtroom, she bravely testified against a man in whose close presence she remained visibly nervous – clearly rejecting his claims in defence that she had somehow “led him on”.
Finally, Ghumman was found guilty on all four charges. While there is no set prison tariff, his likely maximum jail term when sentenced in May is an estimated 12 years.
For Miss Rhind, in common with many other stalking victims, it is mental anguish of having an otherwise happy life overshadowed by a the actions of a man she reviles that has been the most traumatic experience.
Speaking immediately after the verdict, Miss Rhind, said: “He has made my life hell. This all started in 2009 and he was convicted for it in 2010. But that only caused his behaviour to escalate…
“This shows just how important it is to take stalking very seriously and to react to it very, very quickly.”
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