A 16-year-old boy who subjected his teenage girlfriend to brutal “torture sessions” which included WATERBOARDING her has been jailed for 12 months.
Zameer Ahmed punched the girl to her face and body before kicking her repeatedly and strangling her with his bare hands.
The baby-faced thug tied her up with a dressing gown cord which he put it around her face and mouth and even made her stand NAKED at the front of the house.
A court heard during the “brutal” and “barbaric” torture sessions Ahmed would also waterboard the terrified victim.
The technique involves strapping down a person, covering their face with a cloth and then pouring water over the nose and mouth to create a terrifying sensation of drowning.
It has been used an an interrogation technique by the CIA but is widely considered to be a form of torture.
Ahmed pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm and engaging in controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship over a three-month period.
The latter offence was only brought in last December to give prosecutors new powers to bring charges over controlling or coercive domestic abuse.
Ahmed, of Derby, was sentenced to a two-year detention and training order meaning he will spend just 12 months in custody.
Jailing him at Derby Crown Court on Thursday (18/8), Judge Ebraham Mooncey said: “This is a very serious case and when one looks at the facts, had you been an adult you would be looking at a very lengthy sentence indeed.
“All in all, you would have been leaving this court with six or seven years today.”
The judge said Ahmed had accepted the “most cruel of behaviours” that a human being could inflict on another.
He also branded the waterboarding “almost barbaric” and said the day-long assault had been “brutal”.
But Kidge Mooncey told the teenager he had taken into account he was only 16 and the difficulties he had had in his life.
The court heard on one occasion Ahmed subjected the victim, who can’t be named, to a “sustained and brutal assault, beginning in the morning and ending in the evening”.
Prosecutor Mark Watson said: “It started with the defendant punching her to the face, knocking out her tooth.
“It continued by this defendant taking a metal pipe from a vacuum cleaner.
“He used that to repeatedly hit her, until the pipe itself broke, even then he continued to use the splintered pipe to hit her, causing cuts.”
During the attack Ahmed also made her lie face down in a bath and held her head under the water.
The girl told police the vicious assault continued into the evening and said the teenager would beat her until he ran out of energy.
The court heard he also wouldn’t let her out for “some days” because her bruises would be seen by others.
Mr Watson added: “Part of the controlling behaviour was to stop her seeing friends and family.
After the last day-long assault, the girl contacted her mum to collect her and said she was “panicking and scared”.
Police were called and officers found “blood spattered on the bedroom wall, on bedding and the pillow” and part off a tooth was also recovered.
The girl was taken to hospital and was found to have swelling, tenderness and scabs to the back of her right hand as well as bruising and tenderness on her right forearm.
She was also treated for redness around both of her eyes, bite marks on her left cheek and chest as well as bruising over both shoulders, tender ribs and scabs on her bottom.
Doctors even found a friction burn to her chin, bruising to her ears, a cut lip, a broken tooth and a 3.5cm long burn mark to her abdomen.
Stuart Newsam, defending, said Ahmed had been “traumatised by violence as a child despite his mother’s best efforts to protect him” and this had “shaped him and his actions”.
