A man has been jailed after strangling a former partner during an assault in Bradford and later threatening to reveal an intimate photograph of her.
Amin Ali, 31, is serving 30 months in prison after admitting intentional strangulation and threatening to share intimate photographs.
Bradford Crown Court heard that Ali and the victim were arguing when she tried to call police. Ali then snatched her mobile phone away.
During the incident, he slapped her and grabbed her by the hair and neck. The court heard he dragged her up a flight of stairs by her hair and strangled her.
Prosecutors said Ali later contacted the woman through social media, claiming he was suicidal, and sent a text message threatening to send intimate images of her to her father.
In a statement read to the court, the victim said she had become socially withdrawn and felt “emotionally dead”.
Ali, formerly of Mannheim Road, Bradford, appeared via video link from HMP Leeds. The court heard he had been using alcohol and substances at the time of the offences.
In mitigation, Ali, a former mental health care worker, was said to have reflected on his behaviour while on remand and described the offending as a shameful period in his life.
Sentencing him, Judge Tahir Khan KC said intentional strangulation was the more serious of the two offences and noted that the threat to share intimate images happened later.
Referring to Ali’s former employment, the judge said: “With that background it seems to me all the more important that you should not behave in the way that you did.”
He added: “There came a point in time when she had had enough. But that did not stop you committing the second of the two offences that I have to sentence you for.”
Ali was sentenced to 30 months for intentional strangulation and six months concurrently for threatening to share intimate photographs. He was also ordered to pay the victim surcharge.