By Sammie Jones-
A violent bully has been jailed for two years and three months for his fourth attack on his former partner and an assault on her mother when she intervened to protect her.
Domestic abuser, Sajad Mahmood, had served three previous jail sentences for causing the same woman actual bodily harm when he turned up on her doorstep in breach of a restraining order, Bradford Crown Court heard today.
This was the criminal’s second breach of a court protective order for the woman. Mahmood also had previous jail sentences for three years and six years for drugs trafficking and money laundering offences.
Mahmood, 37, of no fixed address, was booze fuelled when he attended his victim’s address, and she fearfully let him into her home in the Manningham area of Bradford, prosecutor Emma Downing said.
The discheveled criminal eventually fell asleep on the sofa after further drinking inside his former partner’s home. Matters got worse when he woke up, and he began shouting at the woman, who covered her face with her hands fearing he was about to attack her.
Mahmood then punched her in the face several times, Miss Downing said.
Too scared to ask him to leave, she went out and returned home at 9pm the following day, hoping he had gone. Mahmood hadn’t left and lunged at her and tried to grab her by the hair.
She ran outside, accompanied by her mother, but he pursued them and caught up with them. It was then that the woman’s mother was assaulted while she was protecting her daughter.
Mahmood was arrested by cops in the area who witnessed the situation.
He pleaded guilty to his second breach of the restraining order, assault by beating and common assault, all between September 15 and 18.
The woman suffered cuts, bruising and a scratched face, the court was told.
Mahmood had three previous convictions for assaulting her occasioning actual bodily harm. He was jailed for four months, 18 months and 20 months. During the last attack, in 2017, he punched her and kicked her in the face five times.
Judge Jonathan Rose told Mahmood: “You are a man incapable of restraining your criminal instincts.”
He labelled him a violent bully with a bad record whose victim was too afraid of him not to allow him into her home.
Judge Rose ordered that the restraining order remain in place without limit of time.