A man who attacked a prostitute with a socket wrench and broke her leg has been jailed.

Janghir Khan of Deneside Mount, Bankfoot, Bradford, was sentenced to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to assault causing grievous bodily harm.

The attack left 32-year-old Michelle Wainwright needing three operations and using crutches for a week.

Leeds Crown Court heard that Ms Wainwright met Khan after she turned to prostitution last year to fund her heroin and crack cocaine addiction.

On June 16, 2002, she was working in Lumb Lane, Bradford, with Nicola Lewis, when Khan pulled up in a burgundy BMW and offered to make a meal for the women at his home, the court heard.

She recognised Khan, as he had been a client of hers before, and the women went to his house.

But when Khan said the agreement was that after the food both women would sleep with him, there was an argument and the women left.

Simon Jack, for the prosecution said at the time Khan threatened Miss Wainwright saying "she would have to be careful because he would drag her off the streets".

Mr Jack said the next night Khan accused Miss Wain-wright of stealing a mobile phone. He chased her on foot and she agreed to let him look in her handbag for the mobile phone.

Khan then struck her right arm and left leg with a socket wrench four times before running off and leaving in his car.

Mr Jack said in her police statement Miss Wainwright reported the pain "felt like her leg had been split in two".

Khan then visited a man called Jason Carr at his house at about midnight and persuaded Mr Carr to give him a change of clothes, and dispose of his bloodstained clothing and the weapon.

Mr Carr also provided him with an alibi but went to Bradford Police Station the following day to give a true account of the night.

In mitigation Nick Dry said Khan, 35, had been suffering dream flashbacks of being attacked himself previously and had believed Ms Wain-wright had a knife.

He said Khan, who was on antidepressant drugs, had recently lost his father and had shown remorse for the attack on Ms Wainwright.

He also said Khan had thrown the women out his house for using drugs there.

In sentencing, the recorder, Anthony Hawks, said: "What you did was to carry out a savage and brutal attack on her using, it seems, a socket wrench. You struck her a number of times with it."