violent abuser jailed for 2 years

A ‘VIOLENT bully’ has been jailed for a campaign of mental and physical abuse towards his partner – even while he was behind bars.

Ahmad Mahmood, 30, from Rochdale, repeatedly battered and terrorised his partner over at least three years, a court heard.

The ‘controlling’ thug simply ignored a restraining order and when he was charged and taken into remand he still managed to maintain his campaign of harassment from behind bars.

Now he has been jailed for two years at Minshull Street Crown Court. Even though Pakistan-born Mahmood had a wife back in is homeland, the court heard he had a four-year relationship with his victim and the pair had two children together.

In June 2015 Mahmood was jailed for five months after he admitted five assaults against his lover, and a court handed him a restraining order which banned him from contacting her.

But, by February 2017 he was breaching the restraining order, including threatening to kill her, and he was handed another two years behind bars, prosecutor David Lees told the court. In May he breached the restraining order yet again.

The victim described Mahmood as ‘very controlling’ and how he would control the people she could be friends with, the court heard.

He was remanded to Forest Bank prison but even there he managed to intimidate her, sending threatening letters under the name of another prisoner.

Mahmood, of Pullman Street in Rochdale, was jailed for two years.

He had admitted eight breaches of the restraining order, common assault and driving while disqualified.