Let-off for ‘terrible neighbour’

A thug who beat a woman so severely he left her with a perforated eardrum was spared jail. Sahal Ahmed, 39, repeatedly slapped the victim round the head and restrained her after he lost his temper. Her screams alerted neighbours who called police and Ahmed was arrested at the flat in Brixton, southwest London, on 12 February last year, Inner London Crown Court heard. ‘What happened was; for some reason you lost your temper and started slapping her around the…