A MAN has been jailed after beating his wife with his shoe.
Tassawar Khawaja subjected the mother of his three children to a sustained assault, a Huddersfield court was told.
District Judge Marie Mallon sent him to prison for 26 weeks after hearing that he had attacked her previously.
The judge was told that the 32-year-old and his wife Adeeba were brought together through an arranged marriage.
Mohammed Arif, mitigating, said: “This has been a stormy marriage from the outset.
“Clearly this defendant and his wife have never got on and were incompatible with each other.”
The couple’s marriage lasted for nine years and they had children together.
But in 2006 Khawaja was convicted for an assault on his wife.
On June 2 he attacked her again at the family home on Savile Grove in Dewsbury.
He admitted the attack on the day he was due to stand trial at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court.
Mr Arif said that at the time Khawaja, of Ravens Avenue in Scouthill, was working as both a taxi driver and delivery driver.
He said that on the day of the assault his client returned home after working a long shift.
His wife suspected him of having an affair and confronted him while he was praying, Mr Arif said.
He said: “This defendant snapped and in the heat of the moment lashed out using a shoe.”
Judge Mallon told him she was sending him to prison.
She said: “This was a sustained assault on your wife.
“You have used a weapon and assaulted her previously.”
Judge Mallon also issued a restraining order, which bans him from contacting his wife for two years.
