A TEENAGER who “shoved” a motorist out of her Audi S1 during a broad daylight car-jacking at a Bradford supermarket has been given a custodial sentence of more than two years.

Yusaf Dad was just 17 when he targeted the woman in her 40s as she returned to her vehicle after a shopping trip to the Morrisons store in Thornbury, on September 26 last year.

Bradford Crown Court heard on Friday how Dad, who had been seen looking into vehicles in the supermarket car park that afternoon, jumped into the passenger seat of the Audi as the complainant was about to drive away.

Prosecutor Alisha Kaye said Dad demanded the car keys, but when the woman refused he managed to open the driver’s door and shove her out of the vehicle.

“She landed on the ground on all fours and he jumped into the driver’s seat,” she said.

The woman was screaming for help and the court heard she was struck on the head by the door as Dad shut it before driving off at speed.

The Audi was later found because the police were able to track the owner’s mobile phone which was still in the car.

Miss Kaye said Dad’s fingerprints were found on the vehicle, but three days after the robbery he flew to Islamabad where he stayed for five months.

He was arrested when he returned to this country in February and he pleaded guilty to the robbery charge in March.

Dad, now 18, of Leeds Road, Bradford, also pleaded guilty to theft charges relating to offences back in August 2017 when he stole valuable in-car media systems from three vehicles parked on a Skoda garage forecourt in Huddersfield.

In a victim impact statement the complainant in the car-jacking described how she felt angry about the fact that Dad felt it was acceptable to steal belongings she had worked hard for.

Miss Kaye said the Audi had been the woman’s “pride and joy” but she hadn’t driven again after the robbery and ended up part-exchanging it.

The court heard that Dad, who had previously been given community sentences as a youth and a detention and training order, had been assessed as being “intellectually disabled” by a psychologist and his barrister Howard Shaw submitted that the teenager was “easily led, exploited and manipulated”.

Mr Shaw said a custodial sentence would simply mean that Dad would come under the influence and control of more sophisticated criminal elements.

But after considering various reports on Dad Judge David Hatton QC concluded that the robbery offence was so serious that only a custodial sentence was appropriate.

“No other form of order in my judgement is likely to assist either you or importantly the protection of the public,” the judge told Dad.

If Dad had been an adult at the time of the robbery he would have faced a jail term of about five years, but Judge Hatton said the guidelines for sentencing children and young persons indicated a reduction of between a half and two-thirds.

The judge sentenced Dad to two years and three months in a young offender institution for the robbery with concurrent sentences of three months for the thefts.