Jealous ex planted listening bugs around Leeds woman's home after break-up
Jealous put the bugs behind plug sockets
A woman was left stunned after her jealous ex partner planted listening devices in her home to monitor her.
Cunning Mauzim Hussain bugged her home by putting the sophisticated equipment inside plug sockets in the wall.
The 36-year-old avoided being locked up at Leeds Crown Court this week despite admitting stalking involving a fear of violence.
The couple had been in a relationship for 11 years, but it came to an end in March 2025 because of his infidelity, prosecutor Jessica Lister said.
After that, Hussain became “abusive and paranoid”, calling the woman constantly, often through the night.
He would also sit parked outside her home.
Hussain would become more paranoid during periods when he was looking after their children, knowing she was free to go where she chose.
She became suspicious after he logged into her Uber account and fast-food delivery app, and would ask her why she got transport to places and why she was ordering takeaways.
In May of last year, he entered her home while she was in bed and burst into her bedroom. He said he could hear a man’s voice, which was on a TikTok video she was watching at the time.
Having entered her home again at a later date, she saw him unscrew a wall plug socket and remove something and place it into his pocket.
Ms Lister said the woman then became paranoid and unscrewed another socket to find a SIM card placed inside with protruding wires.
After contacting police, they came to her Leeds home and they found another two similar devices.
Hussain had used various mobile numbers to contact those SIM card and listen, having called over 1,150 times.
He later returned to her home again and climbed through an open window to attack the woman in her bedroom, kicking and hitting her.
Finally, he tried to attack her outside of a school and when she got in her car to flee him, he punched the window of her car.
Mitigating, Giles Grant said his sentence could be suspended and had not contacted the woman since.
Judge Simon Batiste alluded to a basis of plea from Hussain that “might explain” his behaviour, but the details were not disclosed in open court.
He told Hussain, of Poplar Court, Bramley: “You clearly spent a great deal of time listening in to what she was doing.
“There are some very devious methods that you used.”
He handed Hussain a 12-month sentence, suspended for 18 months, ordered him to complete 150 hours of unpaid work and 15 rehabilitation days with probation.
He was also put on a six-month GPS exclusion-zone monitoring tag and ordered to complete a 26-session domestic violence awareness course.
Finally, he was given a five-year restraining order to keep him away from his ex partner.