Stalker who sent health worker Harrods voucher faces jail

A stalker who sent songs to a health worker and a Harrods voucher loaded with hundreds of pounds is facing jail.

Leon Khan, 40, became obsessed with blonde Sylwia Anczakowska when she was a health care facilitator and he was a patient at St Bernard’s Hospital in Southall, west London.

Khan sent Ms Anczakowska some 50 emails and 17 MP3s over a 20 month period.

Ms Anczakowska met Khan ‘on a professional basis’ while he was on the Derby ward, but made no attempt to speak to him when he was moved, Isleworth Crown Court heard.

This led Khan to send her a Facebook message saying ‘Am I a d**khead?’, jurors heard.

After blocking him, she raised the message with her bosses and she was later moved to a role that did not involve interacting with patients/

Khan also gave Ms Anczakowska a Harrods gift card but following his discharge in September 2025, she received multiple emails from ‘Freedom 2025’, ‘Leon Lacey’, and ‘Switch 123’, jurors heard.

Ms Anczakowska had left the hospital to work for dealership Car Planet.

She reported the emails to police but she continued to receive up to six messages a day with MP3 attachments and a request to meet him in Kensington on 13 February which she ignored.

On Valentine’s Day, Khan made repeated calls to the Enfield branch of Car Planet – telling Ms Anczakowska’s boss Asif Hussain he would ‘send guys around’ and ‘a package’ and the car dealership would ‘be no more’.

He also accused Ms Anczakowska of stealing from him, said he had sent the dealership packages for her, and claimed she was in a criminal gang.

‘It is perfectly clear in making these claims and through these many calls he was trying to get her sacked from her job,’ said Miles Trigg, prosecuting.

The threats to send people around left Mr Hussain ‘fearful’, and there was also a chain of events leading back to the hospital that caused Ms Anczakowska to change her usual habits.

Khan was arrested on 17 February.

‘It seems clear from what he has said in the emails that he believed he loved her and that she him. While of course she was providing him professional care in hospital,’ said Mr Trigg.

‘We say that he tried to give her a gift card in hospital, but she refused the gift. When she offered to get it extended to help him, he let her do that but then refused to take the new card from her and continued to refuse to accept it, and we say used that as a lever in an effort to control her.

‘Once he was discharged, we say that he sent a run of emails to pressure her to meet with him, seemingly convinced that she loved him, finally making an ultimatum on 12 February for them to meet.

‘When the ultimatum (after the emails and song MP3s) was not acceded to, the defendant then decided to pressure her and harass her by repeated calls to her work and seeking to get her fired by telling the managers stories and threatening the company if they continued to support their employee.’

Ms Anczakowska told the court it was not unusual for hospital staff to receive gifts like ‘chocolate, or perfumes’ from patients and their families.

On the Harrods gift card with hundreds of pounds she was offered by Khan, Ms Anczakowska said: ‘I didn’t accept it. I said “No”. But he was very persistent and said it was going to expire that month.

‘I said “I’ll contact Harrods and see if there’s any way they can extend the gift card because it will expire.”

‘He said “That’s fine” but he still wanted me to keep it.

‘I contacted Harrods. I called them. I asked them if there was any way I could extend the gift card. They said the only way I could do that was purchase something and return it to extend it for two years.

‘I purchased something with the gift card and then returned it. I went into Harrods. It was a pair of shoes. I returned them.’

Ms Anczakowska said the new gift card was delivered to a collection point, but could not remember how long it took.

Not wanting to keep the card, Ms Anczakowska told jurors she offered it back to Khan again then offloaded it to another staff member to pass on to him.

‘That’s when the complaints come.

‘I did not feel safe being anywhere near Leon,’ she added.

Khan, who was last living at a Travelodge hotel in Marylebone, denied but was convicted of stalking, involving serious alarm or distress, between 1 June 2024 and 15 February 2026.

He was remanded in custody while reports are prepared and will return for sentence on 18 November.
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