AN asylum seeker who married a British woman after meeting her on Facebook to strengthen his case for a visa attacked her with a hammer when she forgot to cook his dinner.

Brute Mohsin Akram, 21, launched a terrifying attack on his wife while drunk, causing multiple soft tissue injuries to her body.

6 A judge has failed to deport Moshin Akram despite him being found guilty of beating his wife Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

Akram treated his wife Mariam Hussain, 20, as a prisoner in her own home - forbidding her from leaving the house alone, owning a mobile phone or having access to the internet or social media.

Months of abuse culminated in the assault in their one-bedroom flat in Cardiff in the early hours of the morning on December 24 last year with first one and then two hammers in separate attacks.

Full-time mum Ms Hussain told a court how she was "bruised all over" in the 60-minute sustained attack before she managed to escape and call for help.

She raced out of the first floor flat and pleaded with three girls for help, who hid her in a doorway and called police - her four-month-old baby was sleeping in the bedroom.

6 Miriam Hussein is furious a judge did not deport her husband after he hospitalised her following an assault Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

6 His wife claims Akram has returned to Pakistan to go partying despite claiming asylum in the UK Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

When police arrived at the flat they found Akram, who had filed a missing persons' report in the meantime, pacing up and down outside on the street saying he was looking for his wife.

Ms Hussain was treated at the University of Wales Hospital the following morning for injuries, including bruising and cuts to both arms, mid back and fingers, a court heard.

He was jailed for 15 months at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm (ABH) and criminal damage.

6 The thug went out drinking before coming home and attacking his wife Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

Speaking after the sentencing was fuming Ms Hussain the judge chose not to exercise deportation powers and she is calling on the Home Office to review his asylum status once he is released from prison.

Ms Hussain, who has filed for divorce, said: "The judge could have said he is to be deported but didn't. There are so many reasons why he should be deported.

"He is an asylum seeker but actually went out of the country last year. He has the stamps on his passport, how can they let an asylum go there, come back and continue life as normal.

"I was pregnant at home, he left and broke the baby's money box and went to Pakistan partying, he was there for three weeks."

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A court heard, Ms Hussain had fallen asleep at around 10pm on December 23 and woke three hours later when Akram returned home drunk and in a rage.

Prosecuting, Stephen Donoghue said: "The prosecution say he was expecting her to have made him food. That was the genesis for the argument that ensued.

"The prosecution say he completely lost his temper and started to talk about teaching her a lesson, how to be a good wife.

"He then picked up one of the hammers and began hitting her, she put her arms above her head to protect herself.

"The prosecution say that she was pleading with him to stop, telling him that he was hurting her. He said 'you've had your chance to be a good wife'."

6 His wife claims the asylum seeker has returned back to Pakistan to go partying despite claiming asylum in the UK Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

6 His wife, who has filed for divorce, is appealing to the Home Office to review the deportation ruling Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

Mr Donoghue claimed Ms Hussain invented that she needed to top up the electric metre in a bid to escape her husband.

In a statement read out in court, one of the girls who helped Ms Hussain after she fled from her flat, Amelia Murphy, said: "Even though it was night-time, we were stood underneath an outdoor light and could clearly see she had cuts and a bruise on the side of her hand."

Defending Akram, Andrew Kendall suggested the injuries Ms Hussain sustained following a "10-minute assault" with two hammers should have been drastically worse.

He claimed Akram fled Pakistan after his schizophrenic brother burned down the family home in Lahore, destroying a copy of the Quran in the process which enraged locals.

Akram was convicted of battery in 2015 following another attack on Ms Hussain and was handed a community order.