A DRUG addict has been jailed for 12 months after kicking, biting and spitting at police officers trying to arrest him.

Officers were called to a house in Lingwood Road, Girlington, on February 24, to find a trail of blood through the house and up the stairs.

They found Abdul Aziz trying to climb out of an upstairs window and when they went to arrest him, he resisted, kicking officers and biting their hands. He also spat at one officer in the face.

Aziz, 32, of Vaughan Street, in Bradford city centre, was found guilty in his absence at an earlier trial of assaulting a police officer and obstructing an officer, relating to the February 24 incident.

He was also found guilty of failing to provide a specimen and two counts of failing to surrender to custody.

Prosecutor Paul Nicholson told Bradford Crown Court that on July 27 last year officers were called to a domestic incident in Girlington, and when they arrived Aziz had already left in a white Audi, which was later involved in a collision.

When he returned to the house he was "very erratic" and officers were concerned he had not been fit to drive. He refused to provide a breath sample.

In addition Aziz was in breach of a two year suspended jail sentence dating back to January 2017 in relation to a string of drug offences.

Officers found him with almost £10,000 of cocaine, scales and £35,000 in cash.

Judge David Hatton QC had spared him an immediate prison sentence after hearing that Aziz had turned to drugs when he was slashed across the face in a unrelated incident, leaving him scarred for life.

This time he jailed Aziz for six months of the suspended sentence as well as six months for the fresh offences.

Sohail Khan for Aziz, said the quantity surveyor suffered from post traumatic stress disorder as a result of the attack on him in 2014.

His life had "gone off track", he said, despite the "lifeline" offered him by the judge last year.