A 32-YEAR-old Bradford man has been jailed for 18 months after he admitted repeatedly breaking an order designed to protect a woman and two children.
Mohammed Safier Akhbar, of Glenrose Drive, Bradford, began by sending the woman an email, said to be non-threatening, but still against the non-molestation order imposed by Bradford Family Court in September last year.
This was the first of four incidents from October 2, 2021, onwards that saw him break the order each time.
Bradford Crown Court heard that Akhbar also admitted entering the woman’s garden, then home, the following week at around 9pm and behaved in an abusive manner towards her.
Prosecutor David McGonigal said he called her a “slag” and said he was “not going to let her live”, as well as saying he did not care about the protective order.
She was able to call 999 to listen in to Akbar’s threats, and he left before the police arrived.
Mr McGonigal said the woman was left “distressed and she just wanted it to stop. “She hadn’t been eating and sleeping properly and had fainted,” he added.
Then, In December, he made contact with the woman again on two consecutive days, visiting her mother’s home and this time taking her phone so she could not call the police.
The following day he turned up at the Super Pound Store on Great Horton Road, while the woman was sat in a car outside with her two children.
Again, he was threatening and called her a “slag and a snitch”, spitting in her face.
The court heard that Akhbar left the store after realising someone had called the police and they were on their way.
Akhbar pleaded guilty to four counts of breaching a non-molestation order, and was jailed for 18 months. The four and a half months he has spent on remand will also be taken into account.
Shufqat Khan, for Akhbar, said the defendant had been finding it difficult to cope at the time of the incidents – and that this was part of the driving force behind his behaviour.
Judge Richard Mansell QC imposed an indefinite restraining order as the non-molestation order was due to expire later this year.
In sentencing, he said Akhbar had verbally abused the woman and left her in “very serious harm and distress”.
He warned him that he could receive a prison sentence if he were to breach the restraining order.
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