An axe wielding van driver who shattered a motorist’s windows in a terrifying road rage attack is behind bars awaiting a jail sentence.

Christopher Kilminster roared past Stephen Holdsworth in a 20mph speed limit outside a primary school and then jumped out of his white van and smashed up Mr Holdsworth’s vehicle because he sounded his horn at him, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.

Kilminster, 28, of Milner Road, Baildon, pleaded guilty to criminal damage and having an offensive weapon on March 28 this year. He was remanded in custody by Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, who told him: “This is an extremely serious and frightening episode of road rage.”

Prosecutor Matthew Donkin said Mr Holdsworth was driving within the 20mph speed limit past Glenaire Primary School on Thompson Lane, Baildon, at 4.30pm.

A blue Toyota had already impatiently accelerated past him when Kilminster came up at speed behind him and tried to overtake.

He was unable to get past at first, but then got round Mr Holdsworth’s car and blocked him in.

Kilminster jumped out of the van with a hand axe and rained repeated blows on the car, shattering the windscreen, the driver’s door window and the rear window. He leaned in through the broken glass and shouted: “Do you want some of me?”

Kilminster told officers he had been provoked and his finger injured in the incident, but he refused to given them any further information.

He had 16 previous convictions, including eight offences of criminal damage, two public order offences and an offence of resisting a police officer.

In mitigation, his barrister, Ben Campbell, said he client had “seen red” and acted on the spur of the moment.

“He accepts that what he did was wholly inexcusable and wrong,” Mr Campbell said.

Judge Durham Hall said he wanted more information before he sentenced Kilminster, but he warned him he faced a jail term of at least 12 months.

“I take a very dim view of your actions,” he added, locking him up until a sentencing hearing on July 1.