A Mill Hill man has been convicted of stalking his former partner and his daughter after a five-week trial.
Andrew Rabin, 56, was found guilty of the aggravated stalking of his former partner, causing her “serious alarm or distress” between July 2023 and May 2024; and of a similar offence against his daughter between January 2021 and July 2023.
He was found not guilty of aggravated stalking but guilty of simple stalking of a third individual who cannot be named for legal reasons, and also guilty on one count of fraud.
Rabin, whose marriage broke down in 2012, had a seven-month relationship with another woman he went on to stalk which she ended in July 2023.
Prosecuting counsel Matthew Hodgetts described him as an obsessive and spiteful man who was “instinctively confrontational” and “blurts things out without thinking about them”.
He had been unable to accept the end of the relationship, Hodgetts told the jury at Harrow Crown Court, which was sitting in Hendon.
In one incident shortly after the break-up, he went around to the house of a friend of hers and wanted to know if she was inside. Later that day, when she arrived home with another friend in an Uber, Rabin came out from behind a tree and started interrogating the friend.
“She ran into her house where she was shaking uncontrollably,” the jury was told.
In another episode, he followed her to Bushey where she had a pilates class but he claimed he had gone to visit his mother who lives there.
She suddenly spotted him driving alongside her car and screaming, leaving her terrified that he was going to run her off the road.
On another occasion, when he followed her to a car park outside a shopping centre and began shouting at her, she called on two members of the public to help.
Rabin claimed that he had been trying to get in touch with her about some money he said she owed him for a plane ticket.
The court also heard that he went to a pub she frequented and was once seen staring at her through the window.
He was also convicted of fraud for ringing up EasyJet while she was on a holiday abroad with family members and cancelling her return tickets. “What a hateful and pathetic thing to have done,” Hodgetts told the jury.
The court heard that his daughter, who is now 18, had stayed sometimes with her father when she was younger, but then no longer wanted to see him.
When he came around once to her house, he had left her terrified after banging on the window for half an hour asking to be let in, the jury was told.
A teacher in whom she confided about her anxiety over her father described her as being “inconsolably in tears”.
In her police video interview, she said, “He doesn’t actually care. It’s all about my mum, he wants revenge.”
He will be sentenced on April 21.
After the verdict was announced, Rabin’s former partner said of her decision to go to the police, “I did it to protect others”.
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