A KEIGHLEY teenager who recklessly drove a car into his pregnant girlfriend, kicked her and made abusive phone calls to her family, was locked up for 21 months.

Bradford Crown Court heard the 20-year-old woman was knocked on to the car bonnet but escaped with minor injuries.

The court was told she had been in a relationship with Tanzeel Ahmed, 19, but he had become paranoid and controlling.

Prosecutor Camille Morland said the woman ended the relationship after nine months. Ahmed served a short prison sentence for offences of assault, damage and harassment against the woman and a two-year restraining order was made last September, banning him from contacting her.

But in February there was a verbal altercation and he kicked her in the shoulder after she had struck him.

The following month they argued during a car journey. She got out and the car struck her as it started to move at a minimum speed.

Miss Morland said the woman, who was pregnant, suffered cuts and bruises. She later had a miscarriage but it was not connected to the incident.

Ahmed made a number of verbally abusive phone calls to her family, which included threats to pour petrol through a letterbox and to firebomb cars.

Ahmed, of Devonshire Street, pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order, harassment, and assault causing actual bodily harm.

The court heard he had become a Listener, helping other prisoners, while in custody, and had been trusted to organise food for fellow inmates after fasting.

Jailing him, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC said Ahmed clearly had a problem with women and respect, and he had to be sent to custody.

Judge Durham Hall said Ahmed had become “paranoid, controlling, abusive and dangerous” during the relationship.

He had used a car recklessly, causing the woman to go on the bonnet.

He said the threats to her family had been “deeply unpleasant and nasty” and included threats to pour petrol into the home of her parents.