Middlesbrough thug locked up for brutal attack on woman

Sahed Sarkut Mihmud initially chased his on/off partner down the street believing she had stolen some money from his wallet after a two-day booze-fuelled bender before she pushed him several times to the chest.

However, the vicious assault that followed shortly afterwards showed the 40-year-old continue to slam his victim into the ground when she appeared to have been knocked unconscious by several brutal blows to the face.

Shaun Dryden, prosecuting, said: “The defendant runs towards her, he hits her and punches her to the ground. While she is on the ground, he repeatedly punches her to the face.

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“He picks her head up and repeatedly strikes it on the ground. He then slams her body to the ground.

“She is clearly defenceless and unconscious at that point and there are five separate incidents where she is slammed to the floor.

“She is left in the street and he runs off.”

The judge, sitting at Teesside Crown Court, watched two minutes of CCTV showing the horrific impact of the brutal attack.

Mr Dryden said defendant told officers that they had been drinking together for two days before he confronted her in the street.

In a victim impact statement, the woman she had been left feeling anxious about bumping into her former partner on the street and had suffered a broken cheekbone as a result of the attack.

Sahed Sarkut Mihmud (Image: Cleveland Police)

Mihmud, of Clive Road, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to attempting to cause grievous bodily harm following the attack on March 23, this year.

Stephen Constantine, mitigating, said there was an element of provocation but his client accepted it was not a justification for the violence that followed.

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He said Mihmud was horrified by his actions when he was shown the CCTV footage by the police and had shown genuine remorse.

Recorder Aisha Wadoodi told the defendant that he had inflicted a ‘horrific assault’ on the woman and jailed him for four years and one month for the brutal attack.

She added: “You slammed her to the ground five times when she was unconscious, you then punched her several more times.

“She is left on the road. I have watched the CCTV footage and it is surprising that she survived this attack.”

Mihmud was also made subject to an indefinite restraining order to protect his victim.