Looks like Mo has only partially assimilated to Western Culture. If his woman is not going to wear a burqa then she needs to look really hot.
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'He wanted me to have abs and a huge a**e - like Kim Kardashian': Controlling boyfriend jailed after forcing his girlfriend to run on a treadmill while he showed her pictures of other women and told her she didn't look as good
By James Dunn For Mailonline
Mail Online | 2016-05-19T17:51:12+0100
- Mohammed Anwaar only let Gemma Doherty, now 30, eat tuna and beetroot
- Forced her to burn 500 calories on a treadmill daily, squats and crunches
- Sent pictures to her phone of Kardashian and model Graceyanne Barbosa
- He was jailed for violent and controlling behaviour at Sheffield Crown Court
A boyfriend has been jailed for forcing his girlfriend to undergo a grueling fitness regime and controlling what she ate as though she was a lab rat to make her look like Kim Kardashian.
Mohammed Anwaar told Gemma Doherty even sent her pictures of the women he thought looked better than her, which also included his 'favourite' model Graceyanne Barbosa.
Anwaar would threaten to beat her if she did not do as she was told during a reign of terror that lasted more than a year, a court heard.
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Miss Doherty said: 'He treated me like an animal - almost like a guinea pig in a laboratory. He wanted me to have abs and a huge ass - a big one like Kim Kardashian.
'His favourite model was Graceyanne Barbosa and he would make me look at her fitness routines and practise them. If I didn't he would beat me.'
Anwaar was today jailed for 28 months at Sheffield Crown Court, South Yorkshire, and one of the ten charges was the new crime of controlling or coercive behaviour, brought in at the end of 2015.
Police believe today's sentence - which carried 12 months for that charge alone - could open the floodgates for many more prosecutions.
In a victim statement read out to the court yesterday, Miss Doherty said the relationship had started out 'perfect' but everything changed in May 2015.
'I knew how quickly his mood could change over the smallest thing,' she said.
The court heard how Anwaar told mother-of-two Miss Doherty, 30, who she could see, what she was allowed to wear and what not to eat.
He wanted me to have abs and a huge ass - a big one like Kim Kardashian
Gemma Doherty
She told the court she was forced to eat 50 cans of Tuna a week and run on a treadmill every day to meet his demands, and he would not let her see her friends - who noticed her drastic weight loss.
Anwaar made her burn 500 calories every single day on the treadmill, despite her telling him that it was not the best way to achieve a body like the women he showed them.
She said: 'He would sit on the toilet while looking at pictures of Graceyanne and would tell me I needed to do more sit ups and do more squats.
'I told him that by losing 500 calories a day on the machine would not achieve that - but he wouldn't listen. He would force me on the treadmill until I achieved the daily target.
'One time I had stopped because he had fallen asleep. I had got to 425 calories, he woke up and because I had stopped - he made me start again.'
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Miss Doherty (pictured) said: 'He treated me like an animal - almost like a guinea pig in a laboratory,' and after a year of controlling abuse, she had even begun to think it was normal
She added: 'He would only let me eat tuna and beetroot. I would see my friends out and they told me to eat more.
'I was wasting away when I was forced to lose all these calories every day. I felt like a zombie on autopilot and was at his beck and call - whatever and whenever.'
Mixed in with Anwaar's controlling behaviour were violent attacks, the most serious of which in August last year brought a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm.
After an argument over money, Anwaar first smashed Miss Doherty's iPhone before attacking her with slaps and kicks, choking her and causing her to fall unconscious.
THE NEW LAW TO TACKLE ABUSE FROM CONTROLLING PARTNERS
The new law, which carries a maximum prison sentence of five years, was brought in to include such behaviours, which do not amount to violence but still cause someone to fear violence will be used against them, or generate serious alarm or distress that has a substantial effect on their usual day-to-day activities.
Abuse can include a pattern of threats, humiliation and intimidation, or behaviour such as stopping a partner socialising, controlling their social media accounts, surveillance through apps or dictating what they wear.
Detective Constable Ian Chamberlain, who investigated the case, said the new law gave South Yorkshire Police new powers to prosecute people who use coercive control, giving officers another way to tackle those who commit domestic abuse.
'In this case, both physical and mental abuse occurred over a prolonged period, and I would like to praise the woman in coming forward and reporting the matter to us,' he said.
'This has enabled us to not only bring Anwaar to justice for his actions, but to also provide this woman with the necessary support in order to help her move forward with her life.'
Following the sentencing, Nicola Lambe, of Sheffield domestic abuse charity Ashiana, said: 'The new legislation has and will continue to help raise awareness around all types of domestic abuse which will help protect women who are or have experienced this type of abuse and to also understand that this is abuse and the fear that this can instil can be damaging.
'Now there is new legislation, women are more likely to understand and seek the support that they need.
Sheffield city councillor Cate McDonald, cabinet member for health and social care, added: 'Controlling or coercive behaviour can take many different forms and can involve making someone do something they don't want to do, repeatedly causing a victim harm and limiting someone's freedom and independence.
'This type of behaviour can be incredibly harmful in an abusive relationship, where one person holds more power than the other.
'There is support for people affected by all types of domestic abuse in Sheffield and we don't want people to suffer in silence.'
He assaulted her on five other occasions, often in front of her young sons. The most recent attack was on March 5 this year, again after an argument, and this was when police were called.
The court heard Anwaar slapped Miss Doherty two or three times around the back of the head, put his hands around her throat so she fell to the floor and choked her in a headlock. He continued the assault, hitting her again and calling her a dog.
Nicola Quinney, prosecuting, said Anwaar had held a knife to Miss Doherty's throat, asking her if she wanted him to kill her, and saying he wasn't scared of a life sentence.
During the attack, Miss Doherty's son Ethan, three, was hiding under the bed.
She added: 'When I told the police that I didn't mind a slap or being roughed about, the officers told me it wasn't normal.
'But I had been sucked into Mo's life of him being a King - and I thought I couldn't get out.'
Miss Doherty finally left Anwaar on March 5 this year following a nine-month tirade of abuse.
Anwaar had allegedly paid men to wait inside Gemma's workplace and make sure she was not flirting with men.
He also forced her to wear male jumpers with long-sleeved arms, not just to cover bruises but to stop other men looking at her.
She was pushed to suicide and took an overdose of 18 pills after the horrendous abuse became too much for her.
She survived, but was beaten again by Anwaar for trying to take her life.
Speaking about some of the harrowing incidents from her friend's home today, she said: 'Some of the things he made me do were totally disgusting and I wouldn't like to say.
'I was forced to wear men's clothes and jumpers in summer. He made me get the bus so he could drive my car.
'I finally decided to leave and get out when he tried to force me to do something that I declined to do. He then beat me in every single room of the house.
'The next day I told him I was going to the shop with my son but instead I ran to a pay phone.
'Five of the phones didn't work - then a stranger found me sobbing in the middle of the street.
'She could tell what was going on from the state of my ears - they were all black and blue.'
After he was jailed, she talked of her relief, saying she has 'finally been brought back into the real world', after withdrawing from the world, falling out with her mother and friends.
But Miss Doherty described how she no longer had any self confidence and was worried because Anwaar had a large family and she didn't want to go out in case she saw them.
'He ruined my daily life,' said Miss Doherty, who had to be put into a safe house after going to police for fears of reprisals from his family.
The judge took into account his previous convictions - which included several assaults causing actual bodily harm to other men - when sentencing Anwaar.
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