JAILED THIS WEEK: Here's who was locked up in Bradford

Haji Kaloga forced his way into the child’s bedroom, seized her by the throat and pushed her to the floor while she cried and begged him to stop.

Kaloga, 31, took off her trousers while she struggled, bit his hand and kicked him, Bradford Crown Court heard.

He pulled her hair and banged her on the ground before raping her in a prolonged sexual attack at a house in Bradford.

The girl jumped out of a first-floor window after the attack and called the police.

She was at first too afraid to get into the patrol vehicle but when she arrived at the police station, she told officers what Kaloga had done to her.

She had been injured in the violent assault and Kaloga’s DNA linked him to the rape.

He was arrested and interviewed and denied it.

On the day of his trial last week, he pleaded guilty to rape of a child under 13 and assault by penetration on March 11.

The girl read out her victim personal statement in court.

Addressing Kaloga, who sat in the dock with his head in his hands, she said: “I want you to know that what you have done to me, or ever said to me, is something I won’t ever forget until the day I die.

“I want you to know this because you sexually abused me. Even though I won’t ever forget what you did, I won’t let it change my future, or change who or what I want to be.

“Sooner or later, one day, you will hear that I have become something that you can never image. I hope that I never ever meet a man like you again.”

Kaloga’s barrister, Kitty Colley, said the girl’s statement had been read to him and he fully accepted the effect of his offending on her and he expressed his deep sorrow and remorse.

He was a hard-working man with no previous convictions and he was likely to be deported to his native Gambia after serving his sentence.

Recorder Andrew Haslam QC said the girl was frightened and alone when she rang the police from a Bradford street.

Kaloga had put his hands round her neck and said: “Who’s the man?” before dragging her into a room and raping her.

He had subjected her to a prolonged sexual violation, threatening to kill her if she told anyone.

“One is struck by her strength of character after her terrible ordeal. She is a truly remarkable young girl,” Recorder Haslam said.

He told Kaloga: “This was a quite horrifying sexual assault.”

As an offender of particular concern, he would not be released until the Parole Board deemed it safe to do so.

A former care assistant was jailed for 20 months after punching a woman and pulling off her hijab in a racially aggravated assault in Bradford’s Kirkgate Market.

Ellie Burns attacked two female shoppers on April 29 after they complained that a song she was singing was racist.

Burns spat at the first victim and pulled her hair, as well as punching her and pulling off her hijab.

A second young woman was slapped and pushed over, prosecutor Giles Bridge told Bradford Crown Court.

He said both women were left deeply distressed by the incident.

Burns then assaulted a police officer called to the scene by scratching and nipping him.

Burns, 21, of Roundwood Glen, Ravenscliffe, Bradford, committed the offences 25 days after receiving a suspended prison sentence for vodka and cocaine-fuelled attacks on a taxi driver and five police officers.

She was bailed and on June 28, she assaulted two police officers called to an incident in Ravenscliffe just after 9.30pm. She spat at an officer and kicked a police vehicle door, slamming it on another officer’s legs.

On bail again, Burns committed a third set of offences on July 10 and 11 by assaulting three more police officers following a fight in Valley Road, Shipley.

Burns became aggressive at the scene, trying to open the door of a police vehicle to let out a man who had been detained. She kicked and punched arresting officers and threatened to break an officer’s nose with her handcuffs.

Burns pleaded guilty to two offences of racially aggravated common assault and six offences of assaulting a police officer.

On April 4, she was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, for a racially aggravated assault on a taxi driver, racially aggravated harassment, theft and assaulting five police officers, in April and January last year.

The court heard that Burns hurled racist abuse at the taxi driver and punched him in the face, causing bruising and a cut to his eye.

When the police arrived, she struggled during arrest causing a cut to an officer’s finger. Back at the station, the officer was kicked and spat at, and Burns threatened to bite his nose.

Three months earlier, Burns stole a packet of cigarettes from a petrol station in Killinghall Road, Bradford. When the police arrived to arrest her, she pulled over a sweet display, smashed a bottle and kicked an officer.

Days later, she elbowed an officer in the chest, attempted to headbutt another and spat in one’s face.

In July this year, Burns was remanded in custody and probation and psychiatric reports were prepared.

Her barrister, Camille Morland, conceded that she was not suffering from a mental illness but said that she had suffered serious emotional trauma.

She was left with issues of substance misuse and aggression following an abusive relationship when she was introduced to Class A drugs and alcohol.

Burns had conducted herself well in her role as a care assistant, dealing capably with very challenging situations.

“When sober and calm, she is insightful and thoughtful; when she is intoxicated, it is another story,” Miss Morland said.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, told Burns: “Life hasn’t been at all easy for you.”

But she had breached the suspended sentence order “conclusively, in a very effective way.”

Just 25 days after receiving it, Burns had carried out racially aggravated assaults on two Asian ladies who took exception to her behaviour.

One had been spat at and punched and had her hijab pulled off. Both were left deeply distressed.

Burns went on to assault police officers in two separate incidents.

“How can I overlook a flagrant breach of a suspended sentence?” Judge Durham Hall asked.

He activated ten months of the suspended sentence and jailed Burns for a total of ten months for the new offences, the sentences to run consecutively.

A drug dealer was jailed for four years after he was caught red-handed with 80 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin and almost £4,000 of criminal cash.

Connor Deans was stopped in a grey Seat Leon on Festival Avenue, Shipley, at 8pm on November 20 last year.

Deans, 25, of Raymond Street, West Bowling, Bradford, had £1,455 in the car with him, along with drugs worth £462. The police seized a further £2,355 in cash from his home.

Prosecutor Andrew Horton told Bradford Crown Court that Deans had a previous conviction for supplying heroin.

He pleaded guilty to possession of crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply, two offences of possession of criminal property and driving while disqualified.

Deans was given a suspended sentence of eight weeks’ imprisonment in December for driving the Seat Leon while disqualified.

On June 4, he was caught at the wheel of a blue Toyota after the police saw him overtaking on the wrong side of the road at a junction on Sunbridge Road in Bradford shortly before midday.

He had two bags of cannabis with him and gave his brother’s name to the officers, Mr Horton said.

Deans admitted careless driving, possession of cannabis, obstructing a police constable by giving him a false name, driving while disqualified and driving while uninsured, all in relation to that incident.

The court heard he had 10 previous convictions for 32 offences, including serving a custodial sentence for Class A drug dealing.

Deans’ barrister, James Bourne-Arton, said he pleaded guilty to all the offences at the earliest opportunity.

Since being caught drug trafficking, he had become a father and that had altered his outlook on life.

Although he knew he would receive a significant prison sentence, he had obtained employment in an accounts department.

Mr Bourne-Arton said that Deans had been a street drug dealer with a relatively low position in the supply chain.

“He was not performing any managerial role, or any role other than being the man in the car supplying the drugs,” he told the court.

Two letters handed to Judge Jonathan Rose spoke of Deans’ commitment to fatherhood and determination to change his life.

Judge Rose said it was the second time Deans had been caught red-handed selling Class A drugs.

“You were dealing heroin and crack cocaine on the streets, spreading further misery and causes of crime in this city,” he said.

Deans was jailed for four years for drug dealing and the suspended sentence was activated for two months to run consecutively.

A night-time burglar who stood on a chair to creep in through a house window while the family were asleep was jailed for 23 months.

Drug addict Jan Sugar scaled a two and a half metre wall to make off with a laptop and phone from an address in Ward Street, Great Horton, Bradford, on July 30.

Sugar, 39, sneaked round the house while a woman, her son and her granddaughter were in bed, prosecutor Philip Adams told Bradford Crown Court.

Less than a fortnight later, he was caught by the landlord sitting on a sofa eating a biscuit at a rented property in Rand Place, Great Horton.

He had picked up an out of date bank card and a phone from the address and told the police he was homeless and needed shelter.

Sugar had been caught on CCTV burgling the Pentecostal Church in Great Horton Road at 1.20am on July 10, Mr Adams said.

He pulled out the glass in the ladies lavatory to break into the building but fled empty-handed when the burglar alarm went off.

Sugar was on bail when he was caught stealing shampoo and conditioner worth £31 from Tesco in Great Horton Road on August 28.

His previous convictions, including for offences of burglary, dated back to 2007, the court was told.

Sugar pleaded guilty to three counts of burglary and a charge of shoplifting.

Mr Adams said that the woman burgled at dead of night had been left shocked and anxious. Her health had deteriorated, she felt unsafe in her home and she had trouble sleeping.

Sugar’s solicitor advocate, Nick Leadbeater, said he offered his sincere apologies to the family he burgled.

Mr Leadbeater conceded that the church burglary was “a mean-spirited offence” but said that nothing was stolen.

Sugar was addicted to Class A drugs at the time and keen to spend time in prison wean himself off them.

Judge Jonathan Rose told Sugar: “You provide proof positive of the true evil of a Class A drug addiction.”

He said that house burglary was “an utterly selfish form of offending.”

Sugar had stalked the family home while the occupants were sleeping, leaving the grandmother shocked, anxious and finding it difficult to sleep.

Sugar had also burgled a house of worship.

“It is a place revered, esteemed and holy to the individuals who pray there; it matters not what denomination or faith.

“You violated this church. You desecrated it by your unlawful entry,” Judge Rose said.

A MAN who assaulted and hurled racist abuse at police officers and medical staff was jailed for 14 months.

Hamza Khan, of Great Horton Road, admitted four counts of assaulting emergency workers, resisting an officer, racially aggravated disorderly behaviour over a 16 day period earlier this summer.

The 25-year-old was told at Bradford Crown Court that he had caused “pain and upset to people just trying to do their job”.

On July 3 this year, police were called to Heaton Road, Manningham, at 2.50am to reports of a man staggering in the middle of the street, prosecutor Samreen Akhtar told the court.

She said when officers arrived, Khan was aggressive and racially abusive towards one officer, calling him a “white b*****d”.

“Officers requested further assistance, and when he had been arrested, he continued to be aggressive and racist,” Miss Akhtar said.

“He called officers ‘white motherf****r’ and ‘white son of a bitch’, and in the back of the police van he kicked an officer in the torso, causing him to fall out of the van backwards and land awkwardly.”

On July 19, paramedics were called to Ley Top Lane in Allerton where they found Khan on the floor with what appeared to be a serious head injury.

Miss Akhtar continued: “While he was being treated, Khan told the paramedic he would ‘shag his mum’.

“Despite this, the paramedic continued to treat him, before Khan spat at him. The paramedic still continued to treat him, and Khan was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary.

“At the BRI, he told a poorly dementia patient to ‘f**k off’, and also got up off his stretcher to square up to a nurse.

“Police were called, and he called the officer a ‘white whore’ and ‘white bitch’. He also grabbed her leg and dug his nails in.

“In interview, Khan said he was drunk and could not remember the incidents, but when shown body-cam footage accepted he had used racist language.”

Khan has 15 previous convictions, including a number of racially aggravated offences.

In mitigation, Jayne Beckett said Khan has a long-running issue with alcohol and cocaine.

She said: “He is meek and mild-mannered when sober, but after drinking turns into a different beast.”

Sentencing Khan, Judge Jonathan Gibson said: “Assaults on emergency workers cannot be tolerated.

“They are entitled to go to work without the fear they will be assaulted or racially abused.

“You caused pain and upset to those just trying to do their jobs and upset to people in the emergency room.”