Harassment: Aisha Bijlani has launched an appeal against a conviction for sending malicious emails and making abusive phone calls
An 'evil' barrister who lost a £33million race discrimination claim ruthlessly tried to destroy her ex-boyfriend's life, a court has heard.
Dr Aisha Bijlani, 43, bombarded her former lover with abusive emails, calling his dead mother a 'whore' and branding his new girlfriend a 'German prostitute'.
She also described Atul Sehgal as a 'pathetic lapdog' and described his lover Nicola Koenig as an 'asexual freak' and 'cheap trollop' who should lick toilet bowls for a living, Blackfriars Crown Court was told.
Indian-born Bijlani last year failed in a damages claim against the prestigious Four New Square barristers' chambers, which she alleged had viewed her as nothing more than an 'educated wog'.
During the explosive employment tribunal, she revealed a glamorous legal clerk at the chambers in Lincoln's Inn was having an affair with a married judge and another leading QC.
On Monday, Bijlani launched an appeal against a 2007 conviction on two counts of harassing businessman Mr Sehgal and his new girlfriend with a string of 'alarming and abusive' messages and phone calls.
Bijlani and Mr Sehgal went out for four months in 2004 and after the romance ended they remained friends.
But as soon as he formed a relationship with Miss Koenig, his ex became intent on 'destroying' him.
In the first email, sent on June 20, Bijlani said: 'You and your friends are weak, childish, sad, low achievers, serial liars and pathetic.' She also described Mr Sehgal as a 'loser' and an 'impotent gay man'.
In a second email she referred to her ex-boyfriend's dead mother as a 'whore' and said she would not be 'impressed' as she looked down from heaven.
'Think of your mum. Would your mum be impressed with someone who behaves like this and takes her clothes off for a living?'
The court heard that this was a reference to Miss Koenig who Bijlani erroneously thought of as a 'German prostitute'.
The email added: 'No guy with a normal sex drive could be into such a flat chested, too long faced, asexual freak with large sweaty feet. Yuck.'
Mr Sehgal told the court: 'It was just evil behaviour from her. She was basically ruthlessly trying to destroy my life.'
Bijlani also sent five emails to Miss Koenig - who she had never met - in only three days. The first one started: 'Do most people call you a cheap hooker or a working class trollop?
'Since you have no qualifications and are old and past it perhaps you should get Atul's acquaintances (he has no friends) to pay you for licking their toilet bowl.'
Bijlani, from Belgravia, London, is appealing against two counts of harassment for which she received a conditional discharge at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Earlier this year, her claims against three consecutive heads of chambers at her firm - John Powell QC, Justin Fenwick QC and Roger Stewart QC, plus senior clerk Lizzy Wiseman - were dismissed by a tribunal judge.
She had told the tribunal hearing that the firm's clerks subjected her to a 'racist regime', and alleged that mother-of-four Miss Wiseman used romantic relationships with Mr Fenwick and Mr Stewart to avoid being held accountable at work.
The appeal continues.
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