A FATHER of 12 has been jailed for 16 months after smashing up a woman’s phone with a hammer and cutting up her driving licence.

Nasar Ali shattered the screen on the £900 phone and snipped up the licence and other documents with scissors after arriving uninvited at his victim’s home.

Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday that the offence put Ali in breach of an 18 month suspended prison sentence for beating up another woman.

Prosecutor Mark Brookes said that Ali, 47, of Lytton Road, Girlington, Bradford, pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage on September 24. He turned up at his former partner’s home in Bradford and lost his temper, the court was told. He left the address and was found by police hiding under the bed at his home, Mr Brookes said.

He was in breach of the suspended sentence for assault occasioning actual bodily harm on another woman.

Ali failed to attend court and was arrested and remanded in custody.

His barrister, Mark McKone, said he had stayed out of trouble for 18 months of the two year suspended sentence order. The criminal damage was “a significantly less serious offence” than the assault. Ali was arrested on December 24 when he came back from Pakistan.

Mr McKone said that Ali was a good father to his 12 children with two mothers. He had a ready supply of work from family members who ran businesses in the area.

Judge Jonathan Rose activated 15 months of the suspended sentence and added a month to run consecutively for the criminal damage.