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STALKED (2026) - Season 1 Episode 2
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00:16and this person has been stalking you yeah it's terrifying it was like a really fast escalation
00:30he knows where i live and he found it so quickly i was young and a little bit boy crazy
00:38the next thing i know he was holding me down and giving me this horrific hickey you're mine now
00:45i was 16 when i met him and he was 24. i would never have looked at him and thought
00:51that he was
00:51a romantic interest often i'd get a message on valentine's day they were so stupid
01:01my phone lit up to a message from greg i thought lola's head was going to be in the letterbox
01:08then he pulled out a knife this is what i can do if you don't conform he had convinced me
01:16to move
01:16in with him and things got significantly worse after that it felt like maybe an hour before
01:22the police got there they said that there's nothing that they can do until he does something
01:26because stalking is not illegal you shouldn't stay in this house
01:39we're in a hotel i have a stalker who has flown here from the netherlands and found our house today
01:49i think as soon as we got into the hotel there was just like there was just shock what the
01:56hell is
01:57happening police have come to our house and now we are staying here so that he doesn't take me
02:08and then peter starts messaging again last night they told me to uh block him i mean so i did
02:15but he
02:15just messaged one of my housemates something that sounds like he is going to or has tried to kill
02:52himself last night
02:57during the first eight years i only ever responded to greg once
03:07and it was when he messaged me when i had moved to melbourne on a gap year in part
03:11to get away from new zealand to escape greg
03:22and i thought about not replying but ultimately i didn't want him
03:27to be hanging out around my mom's house with the hopes of seeing me
03:39so i replied to him i'm not in new zealand
03:47greg's response was a rambling response
03:57and i felt kind of bad for him
04:07and so i responded to him it's okay greg thank you
04:16his response to that was
04:20it's okay that i messaged you everything is still the same you still want me to leave you alone
04:33i think responding to greg made things worse because it gave him a slither of hope i think it gave
04:39him
04:39the idea that actually it might have taken 150 messages but she responded so perhaps i'll keep going
04:50when i came back to wellington
04:54i didn't want to live at my mom's house because i didn't want him to know i was back
05:00i felt very like confident knowing he didn't know i was here and it was kind of this feeling of
05:05like
05:05you know oh he's like looking around a bit but you have this kind of peace and then i remember
05:11he saw
05:11me once and things started up again and he messaged me saying that if you don't respond your mum's gonna
05:16find lola's head in the letterbox
05:21it's kind of like what's the right acronym right now hold on okay there's bl and al which is before
05:29lola
05:29and after lola and my entire world shifted when that message came it went from this ridiculous and
05:39ongoing and weird and invasive harassment
05:47turn to i'm gonna kill your cat
05:52from that night on for the following weeks
05:57greg sent me hundreds and hundreds of messages
06:05that were threatening
06:09that were violent and gruesome and sexual in nature
06:17they came at all hours of the day they didn't stop
06:23they just kept coming and coming and coming and i kept blocking accounts and new ones would be made
06:29blocking accounts new ones would be made
06:38my favorite future would be to meet my soul mate in brackets obviously not you
06:44sorry it's not funny
06:46and fall in love and be happy or just you know the perfect girl for me deal and live happily
06:51ever
06:51after but my second favorite future is a path like ed kemper or jeffrey darmer i want to hurt
06:57torture my enemies slowly i want to ruin their entire lives and have them suffer for the rest of them
07:02i want to kill people i want to have you as my little toy
07:21he and i are living together now we've just moved into an apartment building
07:27we had our own lives but very quickly he infiltrated mine
07:34he has isolated me completely from my community
07:40i was also going to a local course
07:44he would park outside of my course and he would wait for me to finish if i was seen to
07:50be with
07:51a male he would come and harass the male or he would pick a fight with me or he would
07:58drag me to the car
08:00if i was talking to anyone inside for too long he would stay outside and honk the horn
08:09there was an a lady who was one of our teachers and she pulled me aside one day after inviting
08:17me to
08:17a housewarming she was having and i had mentioned in passing well my boyfriend doesn't let me go
08:26out i'll have to ask him and she obviously took that as a really alarming statement because she pulled
08:32me aside and had said look i think that you might be in an abusive relationship
08:42a light bulb went off in my head and i thought oh my god she's right this guy is crazy
08:49he is
08:51making me go to the bathroom with the door open he is wanting to read my phone he has to
08:56see every
08:57message he's rifling through my things i know that he's driving around watching me through the day
09:04it's crazy i took my sister to this flat and i walked upstairs and said i'm gonna leave you
09:16and i thought that that was a good idea
09:20he grabbed me by the hair he threw me into
09:22the wall my sister who was barely a teenager is terrified as she runs out of the flat to go
09:33and
09:33get help and he gets a knife out of the drawer and he says you think you're gonna leave me
09:45i managed to slip past him at one point and i run out into the main street of south oakland
09:52papakura and
09:53my family are there and they put me into to the car and i'm crying and i'm in shock i
10:01couldn't believe
10:02what had just happened but there was the sigh of relief never gonna have to see this motherfucker again
10:12and then we turn a corner and then like
10:17like a bad disease he just runs out of nowhere i didn't even get five minutes peace he was just
10:26there
10:29the the breath just left me
10:34i just thought are you kidding me again
10:42babe babe i'm sorry babe babe just talk to me just tell her to look at me if she'd just
10:46look at me
10:47she would know and i did not look at him i didn't break eye contact with that road
11:07god she's cute as she used to be much cuter when she laid eggs and i don't know why she
11:14stopped but she
11:15could have played one for about six months you're so mean i'm such an animal lover i think it's
11:25something that feels pretty integral to who i am of course for you i've been vegetarian for over 20
11:31years and vegan for almost 10. the reason i went vegetarian when i was four was that i um was
11:38watching
11:39the simpsons after um dinner one day and it was that episode where lisa finds out that a lamb
11:44is a lamb and i was like i've been hoodwinked like what i actually got a tattoo of lisa simpson
11:53cuddling a lamb on my leg so nice to be home mom god it's lovely having me back this is
12:02to prove
12:03that you're not really a vegetarian because this is with a chicken bone i think this is my favorite
12:10photo of me ever it's so not me that looking at this now feels like god how could you do
12:16that i'm
12:17like nine months old and yet you look so happy no i know you're about one i think the only
12:26thing he
12:27knows about me is that i'm vegan and so he really hung his hat on that
12:46around this time greg ordered meat lovers pizzas with extra meat on them to my mum's house to get
12:54under my skin and it totally did it felt really terrifying the stalking kind of moving from online
13:03to this more physical action it was such a reminder that he did know things about me
13:25i've always really loved sewing my mum taught me as a little girl and it's been a hobby forever
13:32and i really enjoyed it when i was sewing i was just blasting taylor swift i was in the moment
13:41it was a little escape i started posting my projects on an instagram page
13:48and i stupidly didn't make that account private
13:57greg found that account
14:01and under a fake profile with a scary icon he started commenting on all of the photos
14:11can't tell if you work out to build pecs or you just have the tiniest tits either way they're
14:17unattractive and look shirt no offense some taken why are you so scrawny yet your thighs look quite flabby
14:26i would love to believe that i wouldn't let someone's words affect me like they did
14:32he was criticizing everything about me but also the thing that i love to do
14:48after those comments i stopped posting on their instagram i made it private i stopped using it and i
14:53stopped sewing
15:06it just felt like another piece of me had been taken
15:11and it was no longer this escape or this feeling of relief for me it became another reminder of him
15:27the way i began to see myself
15:33i wasn't even human
15:44i don't have the words to describe what dysmorphia does to you but my body wasn't mine anymore
15:56and i wanted
15:58it gone
16:01i just like
16:03i couldn't get him off me and everything he said just
16:11became who i was
16:15yeah i felt so gross i felt so gross
16:25it was started at this point of time where you really are discovering yourself and who you are
16:31and suddenly who you are is being taken by
16:34someone who had no right to do that it's being taken
16:37and crumpled up and spat on and then given back to you and said actually
16:43you thought you were this but you are this like horrible version of that and good luck trying
16:49to be normal after that they gift you this distorted version of who they think you are
16:54and you internalize it and then once it's all over it no matter how many million people tell you that
16:59you're a good person you're this and you're that you yeah you have to process out all of the terrible
17:05things that they've made you think about yourself you know yeah
17:15i thought this is it i'll really get away from him so my grandfather bought me a bus ticket to
17:22kiri kiri to stay with some friends my phone was just blowing up constantly
17:34i was getting constant text messages constant phone calls
17:42and it wasn't what he was saying it was just that it wouldn't stop
17:47babe please please talk to me please answer the phone why won't you answer the phone where are you
17:52what are you doing he was posting on facebook on my page saying that he was going to hang himself
18:10why are you there i just found out you're in kiri kiri what are you doing there who are
18:14you staying with i'm coming it felt like i was being trapped and hunted at the same time
18:26and then one day i was walking down the main street in kiri kiri and there he was it was
18:33just you
18:33couldn't shake him and because he was so constant
18:43he wouldn't leave me alone until i said that i would go with him
18:52so his mother had offered to buy him and i a ticket to invercargill and that was his bargaining chip
19:05come down and meet my family everything will be okay it's just the city it's just that
19:12i didn't have a home now my home was bashed up my family were kind of sick of me at
19:19this point
19:21so i felt like it was my only option so i got on the plane
19:38and you're a mental health advocate and that's how he found you
19:57i had a pretty uh significant journey with mental health growing up
20:08so
20:16so
20:18so
20:18so
20:34It's been a massive learning process to figure out how to deal with the amount of people
20:39that will contact me in crisis situations.
20:43To this day, I still carry a lot of guilt around people that I haven't been able to save.
20:49I mean, sorry, Jas, for failing you and letting you down.
20:52I can't do this anymore.
20:53I love you so much.
20:54I'm grateful for everything you did to me.
20:56I'm sorry.
20:57I love you.
20:57Goodbye.
20:58Yeah.
21:02It's hard.
21:03You want to save everyone, and you can't.
21:09I think as soon as we got into the hotel, there was just like, there was just shock.
21:15Police have come to our house, and now we are staying here so that he doesn't take me.
21:22And then Peter starts messaging again.
21:28I'm sorry for all the problems that I have caused.
21:30I should have never introduced myself into your lives.
21:32I'm deeply sorry for all of the burden that I have put you through.
21:37I'm sorry that it all went wrong inside of my head.
21:39I really am.
21:40I just want to say one final goodbye to Jas.
21:45So Jas, thank you for your help and keep on doing so.
21:49I hope to meet you in the next life soon.
21:53I think he was playing on what is like some of my biggest fears, and it worked.
22:07As someone who has received people's final goodbye messages before,
22:15I remember at the time just feeling so sick and terrified that he had gone and done this.
22:32I got a call from one of the detectives saying that they had their forensic criminal behaviour psychologist that was
22:41going to call me.
22:43He wanted to talk to me about how to keep myself safe with Peter still being free.
22:50When did you first become aware of my case? When did the police bring you into it?
22:55Probably about 24 hours after it all started.
23:02Nathan began to talk about the things that I needed to do if Peter tried to do anything to me.
23:12This is an individual that's come over to New Zealand and potentially wants some sort of connection with you.
23:20Arguably it could have been that it was seeking intimacy.
23:24They've arrived, it hasn't gone to plan.
23:32They've arguably been rejected.
23:34That could cause all sorts of issues in how they cope and try and reconcile that rejection.
23:40Now if they were to approach you and then you push back against them even more, that could really flare
23:48up.
23:50It definitely amplified my terror tenfold.
23:53There's a chance that this guy is actually going to hurt me.
24:01You were saying that if he approached me out on the street to be like just so thankful that he's
24:08there and like so kind.
24:09And at the time of you saying that I remember being like, how am I, I'm terrified of this guy.
24:15How am I supposed to do that?
24:17I was told people who are suicidal don't fear consequences.
24:20Saying things like I'll see you in the next life was a very real chance he was going to try
24:24to take me out with him.
24:30Which I already tried to do myself, Peter.
24:40The tiny bit of control I felt that I had, which was keeping everything in my inbox, was starting to
24:46be taken from me.
24:51Greg started reaching out directly to two of my best friends.
24:57I know you secretly somewhat despise Zeni.
25:00I can see it in your eyes.
25:02She's a smug up herself bitch and she honestly doesn't care about anyone but herself.
25:08She'd risk the safety of her friends and her family just to win.
25:12She's a heartless sack of shit narcissist bitch.
25:15You must know what I'm talking about.
25:17She deserves some kind of comeuppance.
25:20Come on, get on board.
25:23Please don't get on board.
25:30I then started getting newsletters.
25:32He signed me up to hundreds.
25:36Imagine how fun it would be to drown Zeni.
25:39Blame Zeni your shit ass friend.
25:42I remember you sent me that screenshot and I was like, yeah, I am.
25:47And like, oh, she's, she's going to know it now too.
25:52At one point you asked me if I'd been in Paraparaumu.
25:57Oh, yeah.
25:59He had messaged me and he'd said, I know where Aunty Hedda and Matana live.
26:04Um, that I think was the first time that I was like, oh, it's a means to get to Zeni.
26:09But like me and Matahana could be in danger.
26:12Be in danger.
26:14First name.
26:15I see Matahana in Paraparaumu.
26:18Last name.
26:19I can literally follow her and stab her whenever I see her.
26:23You worthless cow.
26:25You're such a selfish sack of shit.
26:27Holy fuck.
26:28I'm going to mutilate you one day.
26:39I felt really bad for putting her in harm's way.
26:43I felt horrible.
26:47When it stopped being just about me and it started involving other people,
26:52I think that's when you kind of zoom out and you're like, oh, I can handle all of this.
26:59But when you're hurting people I love, fuck you.
27:03I can't believe he messaged you.
27:07And it wouldn't be fun to drown me.
27:17I never thought it would end.
27:20It felt like this was going to be the rest of my life.
27:26I couldn't imagine a future where Greg wasn't harassing me.
27:34Oh, these ones are horrible.
27:36This spree of mess issues really frightened me.
27:46This isn't going to end well for either of us, Zini.
27:49So let's hope I fall in love with someone or you decide to stop being a bitch and sit down
27:53and have a chat.
27:54Or we might be playing games for the rest of our lives because I don't have much else to live
27:58for, especially after my mum dies.
28:01You probably have a bright future with a husband and kids.
28:05Have you considered that I might not get over this for 10 to 20 years?
28:09You've ignored me for six and now it's way worse.
28:12Your future could be endangered by not dealing with me now.
28:18What if you fall in love with someone else and I kill the guy because I couldn't handle you being
28:23with someone else?
28:26That made it really hard to date.
28:33Oh, I hate this one.
28:38This is the one I think about the most to this day.
28:42One day when you think this is all over and you have a family of your own and I'm all
28:47alone.
28:47I'm going to kill your child in front of you or your husband.
28:50I'll make you regret what you did to me, you worthless bitch.
28:58Yeah, those still on.
29:02These messages made the pockets of silence and still do.
29:09Feel scary because I'm just waiting for him to come back.
29:13It makes me afraid to develop relationships.
29:18It makes me afraid to connect with people.
29:23Yeah.
29:27Those ones really hurt.
29:35There was one day when the stalking was particularly bad and I took the morning off work.
29:41Mum asked to get a coffee with me.
29:43And as we sat there in the cafe, she pulled out the story of Farzana that she'd read in the
29:48news.
29:58Farzana was this beautiful young student who had everything going for her.
30:07She was killed when she was being stalked.
30:13Sing stabbed her 12 times in broad daylight after waiting for her near this alleyway in West Auckland.
30:22As you approached her with your knife, she will have realised that her attempts to avoid your attentions over many
30:29prior months had been fruitless.
30:32You sharing Farzana's story with me changed everything.
30:36And it changed my whole perspective of our situation.
30:40The experience of it turning out so fucking bad.
30:44It just...
30:46Like, I just remember...
30:48The possible escalation, eh?
30:51Yeah.
30:51Yeah.
30:52The similarities were...
30:55Were chilling.
30:57They were chilling.
30:59Farzana's story was the first time that I realised...
31:03Oh.
31:05The outcome of this experience could be that I die.
31:12She didn't solicit his attention and yet it happened.
31:17She said no.
31:19She was kind enough to...
31:21I think she must have gone out with him for a coffee or something because she's a nice person.
31:26And this happened.
31:27And when she said no, he didn't disappear.
31:32Miss Yakubi first made a 10-5 online report to police in October 2022.
31:37She provided screenshots of messages the man sent her.
31:41You threatened to kidnap her, saying you would give her 365 days to fall in love with you.
31:50And another, you threatened to throw acid on her face.
31:56Fearing for her safety, she went to the Henderson police station and made a statement about his stalking.
32:03Just under two weeks later, she was killed.
32:08Farzana's death was so avoidable.
32:13She did everything right. She reported to the police.
32:17Today, the Independent Police Conduct Authority report came out...
32:21and found the 21-year-old law student may have been saved if police acted sooner.
32:33I recognised so much of my experience and what she went through.
32:37I felt this instant connection to her.
32:42And it was like seeing mum react to a young girl who could have been me,
32:48that brought me out of my body and kind of made me think,
32:52oh, I don't want my mum to experience that.
32:56And that, I think, was the real point where I thought,
33:00okay, like, I think I need to stop downplaying what's happening.
33:03I think I can see where this might go.
33:06I don't even know what the right word is, but I just like took that to heart.
33:09And I feel like I, in a sense, carry her with me wherever I am every day.
33:14And I feel I don't want to be talking about this.
33:17But I think that Farzana would be doing the same.
33:20Yeah.
33:21And I think that I'm the lucky one.
33:24When you see something like this,
33:28the fact that you resonated with it is, one, terrifying for you.
33:33But also, like, something so tragic has to be for a reason.
33:38Yeah.
33:45It can't be for nothing.
33:47Yeah.
33:49Yeah.
33:51Yeah.
33:51Yeah.
33:52Yeah.
33:52Yeah.
33:53Yeah.
33:53Yeah.
34:11It's been hard.
34:12Greg had been harassing me for eight years
34:13when I finally went to the police.
34:18I'd been building this case without even knowing it and collecting all of this like
34:24shitty stuff and showing no one
34:31and then finally someone was like here let me take that and I just went
34:35and I just handed it all over
34:41and they said let us deal with it
34:45when they issued Greg with the harassment warning letter the harassment
34:52stopped and it felt so good I thought okay this is what he needed he needed to
35:01know that they were going to be repercussions my phone stopped buzzing the
35:11messages stopped popping up I felt like I could breathe again and I thought huh it
35:19was that easy I just had to report to the police and it was gonna go away the
35:26feeling of just existing without this noise without this constant noise
35:35it was like turning the kitchen fan off when you've been cooking you don't
35:41realize how intense it is and then it's gone and you think oh my god how did I go
36:15through that
36:17would ruin me even more. Like, I couldn't even comprehend.
36:29When I get to the police station, they tell me we've found him.
36:34He's alive, and we've arrested him.
36:38And then the lead detective came back in.
36:41She said, we can't hold him.
36:44But they told me that he was going to be getting served with a trespass notice from my house
36:50and a criminal harassment order.
36:53He would be arrested if he broke the criminal harassment order, which is what they were hoping.
36:58That sounds really weird to say, but it's true.
37:02I got a call from another detective who I think was one of the big senior ones,
37:08and he was saying, I need to know, like, every frontline officer is aware of it.
37:12Everyone knows about it. Everyone is there.
37:15All he wants to do is dropkick him out of the country.
37:18But he can't do that.
37:28I remember sitting down on the plane next to him, and I remember just thinking, of course, of course, I
37:39am trapped in a plane with this person.
37:46He was right. I was his. He did own me.
38:01He took my fight away.
38:13So I land in the metropolis of Invercargill.
38:21It is at the bottom of New Zealand.
38:24It is a very, very long way from home.
38:31I meet his family.
38:34Everyone is nice and they're normal, as I can see.
38:40Like, do they know that he's this kind of person?
38:45His mask only ever could stay on for so long.
38:53We were listening to the singer, and his name was Shwayze.
38:58We liked it. The siblings liked it.
39:00We were all kind of singing along.
39:02And then I mentioned that I had seen in a magazine that they said that he was well in doubt.
39:08And he just lost it.
39:14That was enough for him to spiral out of control and get insanely jealous.
39:21He grabbed me by the hair.
39:23He picked me up, dropped me on the floor.
39:28At that point, I just wasn't even fighting back.
39:32His siblings were really scared, and they called the parents who came home.
39:38And I haven't listened to Corona and Lyme ever since.
39:48His mother separated us, and I slept in the room with the younger sister for the night.
39:52And then the next morning, we decided to go down to the police station.
39:58My ex had found out that we were not at home, so he had decided to run after us.
40:06I remember his mother and I running towards this cop, trying to get his attention.
40:14The cop saw me.
40:17He put me inside in the office.
40:20He took Nathan and put him in a cell.
40:26I knew at that moment that I was done with him, and I was done with his fucking family,
40:30and I couldn't wait to get out of there, and I was never seeing this man again.
40:37And I thought, you guys can sort it out now.
40:40I'm going to live my life.
40:43Here's your problem now.
41:05I had left this violent man.
41:08I was in the women's refuge, and I called my father, Peter, who lived here.
41:13And said exactly what no daughter wants to say to her dad, which is, I'm in trouble.
41:20And my dad just said, you get home.
41:25And I got on that plane, left the South Island, and I came home to Barrieta Hill,
41:32and I had the most beautiful summer of my life.
41:50I could hear myself again.
41:53I felt freedom in a way that I can't explain.
42:01I felt like I had gotten rid of a disease.
42:07I met a guy, and we started dating, and I thought that I would just finally meet someone who was
42:17kind and lovely.
42:21I really started to think that this could be it for me, that I could have a happy life, maybe
42:33have a family.
42:39You come back to this island that's surrounded by water, and you think, I'm good now.
42:49We really thought that the worst part was over.
42:52I'm in trouble.
43:14I'm in trouble.
43:16kill me kill himself everything it felt like until Greg killed me the police weren't interested
43:26everything started to intensify I can't be this to me and I thought oh it's never gonna end
43:36and he just says but you're happy to see me bitch I was really hoping for more of a justice
43:43ending
43:56you
44:16you
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