Find the obsessed emailer!

A serial emailer who has sent hundreds of messages to Met Police chiefs including Cressida Dick is being hunted by detectives.

Uzzam Sohail, 42, was convicted of two charges of sending emails to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety in his absence after failing to attend court.

The bulk of the emails were sent to Supt Jon Simpson and Detective Chief Inspector Will Lexton-Jones.

Sohail embarked on his first round of ‘persistent’ emailing from 6 September to 27 October 2020.

He sent at least 45 emails to Dame Cressida and 48 to Mr Basu, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard.

‘None of these related to policing,’ said District Judge Daniel Sternberg.

The emails were ‘lengthy’ and they often contained large attachments such as press reports.

Many recipients were copied in, including various politicians and other police officers.

Sohail sent a second round of emails between 21 November 2020 and 21 February 2021 and at least 275 additional emails were diverted before they reached a recipient in the Metropolitan Police Service.

‘Many of them are not relevant to policing matters,’ said Jonathan Bryan, prosecuting.

The emails contained ‘complaints that the defendant reported crimes that have not been dealt with’, as well as allegations of ‘torture’ and that his ‘convention rights have been violated’, said Judge Sternberg.

Officers had to ask an IT worker in the Met to block each email address, as Sohail used multiple accounts.

The judge said the volume of emails took a ‘significant amount of time away from cases he was investigating’.

Sohail did not attend court but the trial went ahead in his absence after the judge said his persistent emails were ‘at least an attempt to cause annoyance or inconvenience’.

He was convicted of two charges of persistently making use of public communication network to cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety.

Judge Sternberg issued a warrant for Sohail’s arrest.

His address was given as the Hotel Ibis in Lillie Road, Earl’s Court.

Sohail had faced the same court in 2019 over claims he harassed staff at the five star Como Hotel by sending them hundreds of emails.

His lawyer at the time said he was seeking asylum in the UK after fleeing his native Pakistan on account of the fact that he is gay and is HIV positive.