A care worker has been locked up for five years for luring a teenage girl to an underpass at night and sexually attacking her.

Adil Sharaz fled the country on bail and was re-arrested at Manchester Airport when he returned from Pakistan, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.

Sharaz, 20, who worked in a nursing home, was convicted by a jury last month of attempted rape and two offences of sexual assault in a subway beneath Hard Ings, Keighley, on October 4, 2009.

The case was delayed coming to trial after Sharaz, of Chatsworth Street, Dalton Lane, Keighley, jumped bail and went missing for months.

A warrant for his arrest was executed when he landed back on British soil.

The court heard that since committing the offences, Sharaz had married a Pakistani woman and they had had a child together.

Sentencing Sharaz to five years in a young offender institution, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge James Stewart QC, said he had lied to the police, accusing his 18-year-old victim of making sexual advances to him.

During the trial, the jury was told that Sharaz joined a group of friends at a flat in Rylestone Street, Keighley.

He drank four vodkas and had smoked cannabis earlier in the day.

The girl, who was a stranger to him, arrived with a friend. Sharaz was asked to escort her to a petrol station at about 1am to buy cigarettes, to ensure that she was safe.

“What an irony, you did precisely the opposite,” Judge Stewart told him.

Sharaz led her to a deserted underpass and tried to rape her. When she fought him off, he sexually assaulted her. She was distressed and bleeding profusely.

Sharaz must sign on the Sexual Offenders’ Register for life and the judge made a Sexual Offences Prevention Order banning him from having any contact with his victim.

His solicitor advocate, Simon Hustler, said he was an otherwise decent and hard-working man, with no previous convictions.

His family was at a loss to understand what had happened. Sharaz’s wife was anxious for the marriage to continue and he planned to join her in Pakistan on his release.

After the case, Detective Constable Alexis Towers, of Airedale and North Bradford Police, said: “We are pleased with the sentence of the court on Sharaz.

“I would like to pay tribute to the victim, who showed great courage in coming forward and giving evidence in court, and it is largely thanks to her bravery this man had been tried and found guilty.

“We hope this conviction demonstrates that no effort will be spared to catch and prosecute sex offenders and those who attempt to escape justice.”