A MAN who persistently turned up at his former partner’s home playing loud music and driving after her on the school run has been jailed for two years for stalking and five breaches of a non-molestation order.

Imran Tariq, 41, flouted the court order within two weeks and continued offending in breach of his police bail, Bradford Crown Court heard on Monday.

Tariq, of Suffolk Street, Oldham, Lancashire, put the woman under ‘constant surveillance’ at her Bradford home leaving her scared and looking over her shoulder.

He pleaded guilty to five breaches of a non-molestation order and a charge of stalking, between November last year and January.

Prosecutor Lydia Pearce said Tariq had served the equivalent of a five-month jail sentence after he was remanded in custody but then bailed.

His former partner had described him as controlling, abusive and threatening during their relationship.

She filed for divorce and the non-molestation order was made on November 10 last year. It barred Tariq from going to her address or making contact with her.

Two weeks later, he began calling her, driving into her street and playing loud music outside her home.

He followed her on the school run, turned up at her address again late at night playing loud music and called and texted her.

The woman said in her victim personal statement that the ‘constant surveillance made her feel unsafe in her home.’ She was afraid that Tariq ‘would jump out and attack her.’ She had panic attacks, was on increased medication and felt like a prisoner in her house.

Tariq had six previous convictions for 14 offences including an assault on an earlier partner and fraud by false representation.

Abdul Shakoor, his barrister, conceded that the probation report did ‘not make good reading for him.’ But Tariq had spent time remanded in custody and he was now living out of the Bradford area. He accepted that the relationship was over and he was determined to move on.

His mother was very ill and he needed to be there to support her.

Recorder Simon Jackson KC said the breaches of the non-molestation order demonstrated ‘a serious, deliberate and persistent course of conduct which had a substantial traumatic impact on the victim.’ Tariq had first breached it in less than two weeks. He was arrested and committed further breaches on bail in a sustained pattern of conduct.

The woman had suffered emotional harm, inability to sleep and panic attacks.

Tariq’s offending had a severe impact on her socialising and mental health.

Recorder Jackson said he had a lack of insight into his behaviour, a lack of genuine re-morse and his position was made worse by his regular use of drugs.

A seven-year restraining order bans Tariq from going near the woman’s home or having any contact with her.