A CONVICTED drug dealer who subjected a woman to a catalogue of violence and called her a ‘witch’ and a ‘dog’ has been jailed for two years.

Shaan Ali, 27, had served a 40-month prison sentence imposed in 2018 for trafficking Class A drugs when he committed the eight offences of assault and intimidation.

Ali, of Chapel Lane, Allerton, Bradford, was remanded in HMP Leeds and today sentenced on a video link to Bradford Crown Court.

He pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to four offences of battery, two of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, sending a menacing communication and witness intimidation.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Richard Mansell QC, said Ali was in breach of a community order for three racially aggravated public order offences and battery. Those offences were committed during his licence period from the drugs sentence.

Judge Mansell said Ali had turned up to a meeting with his probation officer last year when he was intoxicated after having drunk a litre of vodka.

He committed the latest set of offences in March and April this year when he had been in a relationship with the victim for a few months.

She said Ali was ‘a lovely person’ when sober but ‘evil’ when drunk or drugged up.

The woman described him as ‘a dangerous man’ in the habit of carrying a knife and a can of pepper spray on nights out.

Judge Mansell said the violence dealt out to the woman included punching her to the head, smashing her glasses; and knocking her on to the bonnet of a car after he had been thrown out of a bar on Sackville Street in Bradford city centre.

Ali had also squeezed her neck so hard that she struggled to breathe, spat and shouted at her, and slammed a gate on her hand. He had threatened to blow up her house and smash her car.

Between March 29 and 31, he had rung her at least 190 times, calling her a slag and a bitch and saying he would kill her and burn her house. In one communication, he said: ‘You witch…you’re dead…you dog, hope you rot…’

At about 6pm on April 4, she was at home when he turned up in breach of his bail conditions. He was in drink and demanding that she ‘drop the charges now.’

Judge Mansell made a restraining order to last indefinitely banning Ali from having any contact with the woman or going to her home.