A woman had a tooth knocked out during a violent assault in her own home after her attacker ignored a police warning to go away and leave her alone.

The complainant, who was known to Connor Shaw, had contacted the police on two occasions that evening after he came to her flat and banged on the door.

Bradford Crown Court heard that officers attended on one occasion while Shaw was still there and told him to go away and not return.

But around midnight Shaw, 25, of no fixed abode, came back and after kicking in the door he grabbed the complainant’s mobile phone as she was calling the police again and put it in his pocket.

Prosecutor Lydia Pearce said the woman asked Shaw to leave, but he repeatedly punched her in the face knocking out one of her teeth.

During the terrifying incident Shaw, who was under the influence of alcohol, damaged the victim’s television and ragged her about by her hair.

Shaw demanded that she go with him or he would kill himself and the complainant tried to stall him in the hope that police officers would arrive.

Ms Pearce said officers did attend and Shaw was arrested after a foot chase.

The court heard that the victim had to go to hospital and a cut to her mouth was stitched.

Shaw, who has been remanded in custody since his arrest last November, pleaded guilty on the day of his trial to inflicting grievous bodily harm, criminal damage and possession of a small quantity of cannabis.

At the time of the assault Shaw was already subject to a three-month jail sentence which had been suspended for 18 months.

Today, Judge Ahmed Nadim jailed Shaw for 37 months for the latest offences and imposed an additional two months from the suspended sentence.

He will have to serve half of the 39-month jail term.

Judge Nadim said the offending was a worrying set of events particularly when viewed against his previous convictions for violent offences.

The judge said Shaw had demonstrated that he was unable or unwilling to learn from non-custodial sentences.

Judge Nadim said Shaw had violated the sanctity of the victim’s home despite having twice been made aware that the police had been contacted about his unacceptable behaviour.

“On one of those occasions the police told you directly to leave the area and not to return,” said the judge.

“You did not heed the instructions given to you by the police. You did not heed the protests and the pleas of your victim to leave her alone and you broke into the property of your victim, made your way to her bedroom and committed the offence.”

The judge said Shaw’s bullying conduct had been disgraceful and shameful and he imposed a 10-year restraining order which bans him from contacting the complainant in the future.