A man who staged a car crash in a bid to frame an innocent woman he beat unconscious during a row over texting has been jailed.
Bilal Muhammed, 24, deliberately drove his VW into a lamp post then falsely claimed his victim, a mum-of-one, had crashed the vehicle while trying to run him down in the street.
In fact Muhammed had dragged the woman from the car in a rage then beat and kicked her until she lost consciousness following an argument about him sending pictures of them on a night out together to her boyfriend.
He then attempted to falsely blame the victim for causing her own injuries in the 'crash' only to subsequently confess after police refused to believe his account.
At Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court, Muhammed of Newbold, Rochdale, pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm and perverting the course of justice. He was jailed for 21 months.
