Bradford's first £1 million lottery jackpot winner has been convicted of assaulting a former girlfriend.

Errol Active, who was jailed for three months for a vicious and prolonged assault on Anne Fisher in May 2000, was yesterday found guilty of attacking another former girlfriend Kirsty Brook.

Bradford magistrates were told that Active had been seeing Miss Brook on and off for five years when they bumped into each other in Flares nightclub in Bradford city centre last July.

The Court was told by prosecutor, Satpal Roth, that the pair later had an argument outside the club when Miss Brook told Active that she did not want to get back together with him.

Giving evidence, the care worker said that she had gone into a phone box to call a taxi but 45-year-old Active followed her in.

"Errol followed shouting and calling me names because I didn't want to get back with him," she said. "He hit me on the side of the face and chin. I was shouting and screaming and then he just left."

"How did it make you feel?" Miss Roth asked.

"I was not happy, upset and angry," she replied.

A witness, Beverley English, who had been out drinking with Miss Brook that night told the court that she could hear her friend's screams.

"She was crying and quite upset and the side of her face was swollen," she told the magistrates.

Active, of Aireville Avenue, Frizinghall, was arrest a month after the attack but denied that he had hit her.

He admitted that the two had been arguing and that he had angrily followed her into the phone box but said that he did not know how she got her injuries.

But the magistrates took less than an hour to dismiss his claims and find him guilty of assault.

Bench chairman, Patricia Tillotson, told Active that they were adjourning sentence for a report and released him on bail to be back at the same court next month.

Active was unemployed when he struck the jackpot in February 1995 using his last £3 to buy the lucky ticket which landed him £985,000.

But, since his win, he has suffered a succession of problems.

He was cleared of assaulting a previous girlfriend after a trail at Bradford Magistrates' Court in September 1996 and the following January narrowly escaped jail when he appeared before Bingley magistrates and admitted driving his BMW M3 while three times over the limit, driving while disqualified and with no insurance.