A MAN dragged his wife out to their shed, tied her up with cable ties and left her there in her pyjamas to punish her, a court heard.

A row erupted between Farhad Asadi and his wife on the evening of January 18 after he discovered their nine-year-old daughter had left the house and walked off down the street.

The court heard the 47-year-old lost his temper and dragged Tayebeh Tahriri out their Kidlington home and into the garden.

Judge Zoe Smith told Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday Asadi had dragged her to the shed and tied her up to punish her.

She added: "You were really angry, you took hold of her and dragged her to your shed.

"That was in order to punish her.

"You put her in the shed and tied her up tightly and locked it.

"She was wearing only pyjamas, no shoes and it was January and extremely cold.

"Police found her in a shed with her hands tied tightly behind her back with cable ties, where she was crying and shaking."

The court heard the pair's daughter ran to get her aunt, who came out to the garden to help.

Judge Smith said Asadi originally refused to give her the shed key, but eventually gave it to his sister-in-law.

She added: "She unlocked the door to the shed, but when she went to get her mobile phone to call the police she found you had locked the back door."

The family borrowed a neighbour's phone and the police arrested Asadi from the house in Edinburgh Drive, who admitted one count of false imprisonment.

Ronan McCann, defending, said his client was ashamed to be appearing before the court and was a man of good character apart from a caution for an assault on his wife in 2012.

He added: "It is with enormous shame and regret he appears before this court.

"He is fully aware he has no one else to blame other than himself."

Jailing Asadi for five months Judge Smith said: "This is a serious matter of false imprisonment in a domestic environment and in the view of the court was your way of exercising control over your wife.

"These actions were happening in front of your child.

"At the time you were clearly worried about the fact your daughter had gone out of the house and concerned to what consequences there might be."

Judge Smith also handed Asadi a restraining order, banning him from contacting Ms Tahriri and from going to her home.