GLOUCESTER Crown Court jailed a Turkish man for two years after he admitted infecting a North Cotswolds woman with chlamydia and deadly Hepatitis B the first time they had sex together.

In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Gloucestershire, cafe and restaurant worker Ercan Yasar, 29, of Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm on the woman on September 15 last year.

The court heard Yasar knew he had life-threatening Hepatitis and had been warned he should always use a condom when having sex but did not tell the woman, who was his girlfriend, about his condition when they had unprotected intercourse during a drinking session at his home.

Prosecutor, Giles Nelson, said the woman became “extremely” ill as a result of the hepatitis infection and spent ten days in hospital.

Mr Nelson said Yasar and the woman, after meeting at a Cheltenham night club in August last year, exchanged telephone numbers and texted each other over the following days before dating over subsequent weeks.

He said she went to Yasar's home after attending a works lunch and they had unprotected sex once.

In a statement, the police said: "The case is the first in Gloucestershire to use techniques in DNA analysis to provide evidence that the defendant infected the victim and that the illness did not come from any other source.”

Gloucestershire police said Yasar will face deportation when released from jail.