Rejected lover broke ex-girlfriend's nose

Law student Akeeb Pervaiz had been going out with the victim for three years before she decided to end the relationship, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.

The love sick 22-year-old, who worked part time as a security guard, pleaded with her on the front doorstep of her home to give him a second chance on November 11 last year, explained prosecutor Mr Howard Searle who continued: "He asked to be forgiven for things that had happened in the past but she said 'no, this time it is over for good'.

"He had been trying to embrace her but, on hearing this, broke off, called her a bitch and head butted her."

Pervaiz ran to his car and drove off leaving the victim to go to Russells Hall Hospital where it was confirmed that she had a fractured nose. The displacement was corrected without surgery.

The former girlfriend said in a victim impact statement that the attack left her both psychologically as well as physically injured.

She explained eight months after the incident: "I lost all my confidence. I felt ugly and could not look at myself in the mirror. I also suffered panic attacks."

Mr Benjamin Nicholls, defending, said: "This criminal folly was not premeditated but, with it, he has jeopardised the career he hoped to follow and his part-time job.

"He comes from a respectable family. He is embarrassed and ashamed by what he did but has taken the consequences on the chin."

Pervaiz, from Paxton Road, Wollescote, Stourbridge, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm and was given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years with 250 hours' unpaid work.

He was also told to pay the victim £500 compensation and ordered to have no contact with her for the next five years.

Judge Marcus Tregilgas-Davey told him: "You had been in a relationship with the injured party for three years until it was ended by her.

"You simply would not, and could not, accept that the relationship had ended. Feelings were raw but your behaviour towards that woman was disgraceful. You had gone to her home to collect some belongings and while there tried to get her to change her mind.

"The incident happened in her own home where she was entitled to feel safe. She has suffered significant psychological harm as a result. She has even moved jobs because of her concern that you might come to her place of work. You have jeopardised your future career with your actions and need help in dealing with any future relationship you might have."