Dad beat daughter after catching her having sex with secret boyfriend mirror

A Muslim father has been banned from contacting his 17-year-old daughter for three years after he beat her when he caught her having sex with her secret boyfriend.

Soruth Ali, 42, woke around 5am one morning to hear sounds coming from his daughter's room, and walked in to find her in bed with boyfriend.

Ali grabbed a hammer and hit the boyfriend over the head with it before chasing him out of his family home in Leigh, Greater Manchester.

The restaurant chef punched and kicked his daughter, who was curled up in a ball, before dragging her out of her bedroom by her hair.

The boyfriend suffered a gash to his head and needed two staples, while his daughter was left with bruises on her face and head.

She was left so scared of her dad that she moved to a secret address under police protection, before going into care.

In a statement to police the daughter claimed her father was "very religious and very controlling" and would not let her out of the house unless she wore an Islamic veil.

She said she had been forced to live "two lives" at the family home as she was made to wear a headscarf in front of her father - only for to secretly take it off once she was out of his sight.

She said she wanted to "live her own life."

Despite the assault on August 21 this year, Ali was said by probation officers to have shown a 'lack of remorse and empathy' for his daughter and her boyfriend and even attempted to 'justify' his actions.

At Bolton Crown Court, he admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault and was jailed for 14 months.

The daughter, who had been seeing her boyfriend without the knowledge of her mother and father, sneaked him back to her her home while her parents were away.

But the boyfriend was still at the property when Ali and his wife unexpectedly returned home early and as a result he ended up hiding in the daughter's bedroom for the night.

Peter Gilmore prosecuting said: "In the early hours of the morning Mr Ali heard noises coming from his daughter's room so went to see what it was. He saw his daughter having sex with (her boyfriend) and became enraged and chased (her boyfriend) from his home, and hit him in the back of the head with a hammer telling him to get out of his house.

"As (her boyfriend) fled the property, Mr Ali returned to his daughters bedroom and started punching and hitting her and she fell to the floor and he began dragging her round by her hair. She suffered bruising to her face.

"(The daughter) and (the boyfriend) both called the police as did a neighbour and Mr Ali was arrested. His daughter was a particularly vulnerable young woman, as she was his 17-year-old daughter living in his house.

"It is clear in his probation report that he was trying to minimise these offences. He has also made attempts to minimise and justify the offences."

In her statement, which was detailed at an earlier hearing, the daughter claimed her father hit her on the left arm and knocked her to the floor. She said he then began to kick her to the head and legs and she curled up in a ball and was she was so scared she wet herself.

She said she could hear her mother and sister saying 'stop' but Ali grabbed her ponytail and dragged her out of the bedroom as other relatives advised her to pack her belongings and go.