A man has been jailed and handed a restraining order against his former partner who he strangled after she refused to get back together with him.

Wasar Ahmad, 33, was convicted of intentional strangulation at Blackburn Magistrates’ Court on May 11 this year.

Preston Crown Court heard how Ahmad had been having difficulties in his relationship with his partner, who lived in Burnley.

Police documents showed there had been recorded violence between them in 2020 and 2022, and Ahmad would regularly go to his partner’s address to see his son, who was the youngest of his partner’s three children.

On Friday, March 3, he attended the house to see his son and asked his partner about the possibility of getting back together.

A verbal disagreement ensued when she suggested she did not like the idea, and the argument became loud enough for the next door neighbour to come round and try to calm the situation.

When the partner tried to leave, Ahmad grabbed her by the arm to stop her and then grabbed her by the neck, gripped his nails into her skin, lifted her up and pushed her into the door frame.

The neighbour started screaming at Ahmad to let go and as she continued, he ran away, calling his partner a ‘slag’ and threatened to ‘petrol bomb her house’.

Ahmad was arrested on Sunday, March 5. He has five convictions from seven offences, including actual bodily harm, harassment, robbery, and criminal damage.

Mitigating for Ahmad, Amanda Johnson said: “He is genuinely remorseful and perhaps the experience of seeing her give evidence and his own account being rejected by the bench in the lower court has had an effect on him.

“He acknowledges what he did was wholly wrong and he recognises the distress this will have caused for the mother of his child.

“Thankfully it was short-lived and not a prolonged, nasty offence.”

Sentencing, Recorder Michelle Brown said: “Your version of events was rejected and the court found the prosecution’s version of events to be truthful.

“The victim is your ex-partner. You have one child together. There is a history between you which can best be described as turbulent.

“You express remorse now but I am not satisfied that is entirely genuine and more an attempt to put you in a better light.

“I am not satisfied the mitigation which has been put on your behalf meets the exceptional circumstances that means stepping back from immediate custody.”

Ahmad, of Folkestone Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire, was sentenced to 22 months in prison.

He was also handed a restraining order against his former partner for five years.