{"id":28795,"date":"2019-03-25T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28795"},"modified":"2019-03-25T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:23:38","slug":"moseley-man-jailed-after-violently-threating-ex-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/25\/moseley-man-jailed-after-violently-threating-ex-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Moseley Man Jailed After Violently Threating Ex-Girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A violent man who threatened to smash his ex-girlfriend&#8217;s teeth has been sentenced to over nine months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mustafa Ahmed from Moseley threatened his former partner with a knife on several occasions throughout their relationship, asking her to choose if she would rather be stabbed in the leg or eye.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed consistently made threats to kill his ex- girlfriend as well as her family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>On one occasion, as he pressed a gun to her knee, the 29-year-old told her he would \u2018smash her teeth in\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2017, Ahmed held his girlfriend at his home in Windermere Road and assaulted her before calling her mother to \u2018collect her\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>When she arrived, the mother was subjected to a brutal beating.<\/p>\n<p>Then in April 2018, the 21-year-old victim was in a car with friends, when Ahmed charged at them and smashed the windows with a hammer.<\/p>\n<p>He forced his way into the car, and then drove off with all three woman inside for well over an hour, while making numerous threats to the group.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed was arrested from his new partner\u2019s address and later charged with three counts of kidnapping, damage to property, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, damaging property, putting a person in fear of violence and controlling or coercive behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed was found guilty and on Thursday, March 14 at Birmingham Crown Court he was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison, with an extended licence period of five years.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Constable Gurprit Bains, from\u00a0West Midlands Police&#8217;s\u00a0Public Protection Unit, said: \u201cThis was a terrifying case where the victim and her mother were abused for months by someone she trusted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonths of threats against their lives meant they were too scared to contact police, therefore I am pleased to see Ahmed behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take cases of this nature extremely seriously, and we want to encourage people to report abusive and coercive behaviour as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A violent man who threatened to smash his ex-girlfriend&#8217;s teeth has been sentenced to over nine months. Mustafa Ahmed from Moseley threatened his former partner with a knife on several occasions throughout their relationship, asking her to choose if she would rather be stabbed in the leg or eye. Ahmed consistently made threats to kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}