Raging ex slashed Leeds woman's back with knife in fit of jealousy
He was already on an order to stay away from the woman
A jealous ex attacked his former partner with a knife after punching and slamming her head against a wall.
Mohammed Rohman had been previously handed a one-year non-molestation order to prevent him from contacting the woman.
But on March 1 this year she had gone to his home on Lawrence Road, Gipton, having got back in contact, Leeds Crown Court heard.
They got into an argument and he punched her to the face, then slammed her head against the wall several times. He was shouting at her and demanding to know who she had been seeing.
He then struck her with a bottle to the back of her knees and legs, then the back of her head.
Rohman, 21, grabbed her by the throat with both hands then let go and left the room, but returned with a kitchen knife and slashed her twice to the back, leaving a three-inch and a one-inch cut.
He demanded to see her phone, which he took from her and threw against the wall, causing damage.
Rohman then refused to let her leave, but the next day he left and took the only key, so she was forced to climb out of a window, helped by police officers she had called.
He was later arrested but gave a no-comment interview. He has no previous convictions. He only pleaded guilty to ABH, criminal damage and breach of the non-molestation order on the day he was due to stand trial.
Mitigating, Peter Byrne said Rohman knew it was serious offending but had “buried his head”, given the late guilty pleas, and had finally accepted “sensible advice”.
He said he worked as a cleaner and had statements from people he knew whom he said “struggled to reconcile the person they knew” with the person who attacked his ex partner.
Judge Simon Phillips KC told Rohman: “You have breached the order in an extremely troubling way.”
However, he opted not to send Rohman directly into custody. He gave him a 36-month sentence, suspended for 36 months - the maximum sentence that can be suspended.
He ordered he complete 20 rehabilitation days with probation, a domestic violence course, 200 hours of unpaid work and put him on a six-month GPS tracking tag.
He was also given an indefinite-length restraining order to keep him away from the woman.