An offender who flouted an electronic tagging order and curfew has been jailed for four months.

Bradford magistrates heard how 22-year-old Amam Ullah Khan took the tagging device off his leg and threw it away.

But the move was spotted by staff at the Securicor monitoring centre in Manchester and investigators were sent to Khan's home in Bradford.

He told them he hadn't got the tag, but went outside to the dustbin and came back in with it.

He refused to let them fit another device, claiming it was "a waste of time".

David Stones, courts co-ordinator with Securicor Custodial Services Ltd, said the order was made last November after Khan, of Whetley Hill, Manningham, Bradford, was convicted of allowing himself to be carried in a car taken without the owner's consent.

As well as wearing a tag, he was subject to a curfew from 7pm to 7am, for a three-month period. But less than a month after the order was made he broke the curfew and a month after that removed the tag.

Mr Stones said Khan told investigators he was going back to court anyway and he didn't care. Further breaches of the curfew were also recorded, the court was told.

Defence solicitor Alan Bridger said Khan had come under pressure from his family to remove the tag. Some of his breaches of the curfew were committed when he went to the mosque, as it was Ramadan.

Passing sentence, bench chairman Marion Le Pla said courts had to send out the message that such behaviour would not be tolerated.

The Home Office said more than 2,000 offenders had served sentences in the community under pilot tagging schemes carried out in three areas, including West Yorkshire.

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