AN Iraqi Kurd who left his girlfriend ‘physically and mentally battered’ after a drunken attack in a Huddersfield street has been jailed for a year.

Dishad Ibrahim, now of Cusworth House, Doncaster, admitted assaulting Abigail Rhodes in June last year after he had been drinking in Greenhead Park.

Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC was told how the couple then moved on to the Tesco store in Viaduct Street where more alcohol was bought, but as they walked along Bradford Road an argument developed.

Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday that Ibrahim, 24, began shouting and slapped Miss Rhodes hard across the face.

Ibrahim continued the attack in Fartown Green Road where he punched and kicked his girlfriend before police officers arrived on the scene.

Miss Rhodes suffered swelling to her face, a bruised and bloodshot right eye and bruising to her arms, legs and body.

Barrister Edward Renvoize, for Ibrahim, conceded that his client had been well in drink at the time of the violence and had acted in a wholly inappropriate way.

He told the judge that Ibrahim had been granted indefinite leave to remain in this country after arriving as an asylum-seeker from Iraq.

Judge Durham Hall said the attack had been ‘nasty and prolonged’ which had left the victim physically and mentally battered.

The court heard that Ibrahim had previous convictions for common assault, drunkenness and possessing a bladed article.

The judge said Ibrahim clearly had a problem with alcohol and a prison sentence was inevitable.