A MAN who beat his partner with a stick and a belt two weeks after she gave birth to his child has been jailed for six years.

Sabir Khan, of Starwort Path, Littlemore, also threatened to cut the baby out of the woman when she was pregnant and subjected her to increasingly violent attacks over a six-month period, Oxford Crown Court heard.

A judge said the treatment of his 27-year-old “adoring” lover could only be described as “despicable”

and that Khan had not shown a scrap of remorse.

Khan was found guilty of three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) and one count of false imprisonment after a trial last November.

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He had admitted another count of ABH but his denial that he used weapons on that occasion was rejected by Recorder Antonio Bueno, who also sentenced him on Monday.

Recorder Bueno said: “The victim is a young woman who gave you her love, affection and loyalty and you abused it to a terrible extent. Your treatment towards her can only be described as despicable.”

He recapped the offences, which started between December 2013 and January 2014, when Khan hit, kicked and stamped on the three-month-pregnant woman before holding a knife to her and threatening to cut the baby out.

Khan, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, gave his English partner a black eye on New Year’s Day 2014 and forced her to wear a hijab, a veil worn by Muslim women, to cover her bruises.

Recorder Bueno said Khan subjected his victim to another “savage beating” in early April 2014 when he hit her head against a wall.

The final assault happened on May 14, two weeks after the baby had been born prematurely, following a visit to the woman’s mother.

Khan picked up a stick from outside as the couple arrived home and he locked the door behind them.

He then beat her with the stick until it broke and then found a belt and continued to hit her with that.

Khan had admitted the assault but denied using the stick and belt. The court heard how Khan had arrived in the UK in 2011 and met his partner in 2013.

Jane Malcolm, defending, said the exact age of her client was unknown but he is believed to be 20 or 21-years-old and was of previous good character in the UK.

Sentencing Khan, Recorder Bueno said: “You knew how she (his partner) felt about you and after a relatively short time you treated her as little more than a slave. She was there to do your bidding as and when you required and your treatment towards her turned to physical violence of a particularly unpleasant and cruel kind.”

He said he had not detected “a single scrap of remorse” from Khan. Recorder Bueno sentenced Khan to four years jail for each of the counts of ABH, to run concurrently, and two years prison for false imprisonment, to run consecutively.

He also recommended that Khan should be deported back to Afghanistan after he has served his sentence.