A man has been jailed for beating his wife with a hammer after she forgot to cook his dinner. Mohsin Akram, 21, shouted ‘you’ve had your chance to be a good wife’ when he attacked her while drunk at their home in Cardiff.
A court heard that the Pakistani asylum seeker had met his victim on Facebook and they got married so that he would get a visa.
It was also said that he would not allow his 20-year-old wife to leave their home and did not let her have a mobile phone or internet access.
He has now been jailed for 15 months for pleading guilty to ABH and was told that he could stay in the UK when he is released.
Mrs Hussain was subjected to a 10-minute attack in the early hours of December 24 when he returned drunk from a night out.
She was so scared that she left her four-month-old baby inside the house when she managed to flea, pretending she was going to get credit for the electric metre.
Once she was outside she begged three girls for help on the street. In the time she was gone, Akram filed a missing persons’ report.
One of the girls who found her said: ‘Even though it was night-time, we were stood underneath an outdoor light and could clearly see she had cuts and a bruise on the side of her hand.’
As well as the prison sentence he was given a restraining order stopping him from approaching Mrs Hussain.
