A FATHER-OF-FOUR has been jailed for ten months for chasing a man down the street with a knife in a dispute over loud music.

Mohammed Ishtiaq, 38, armed himself with the weapon after breaking a window at his neighbour James Crowe’s home on Cartmel Street, Keighley.

Ishtiaq pleaded guilty to threatening Mark Spencer – who intervened in the row – with a bladed article on July 14 last year.

Bradford Crown Court yesterday heard he went round to Mr Crowe’s house the previous day and shouted at him to come outside.

On the day of the offence, he returned to the address, breaking a window by accident when he knocked on it to attract the occupants’ attention.

Ishtiaq returned to his home and fetched a knife that he waved, “ranting and raving,” at Mr Spencer.

Prosecutor Richard Canning said someone gave Mr Spencer a hammer but he threw it to the ground, urging Ishtiaq to drop the knife.

The defendant pursued Mr Spencer with the weapon, forcing him to dodge around a parked car.

He picked up a stick and struck out at Ishtiaq, hitting his head.

In mitigation, Ishtiaq’s barrister, Nikki Peers, said he went to remonstrate with Mr Crowe because he felt he was suffering disruption from his neighbour’s property.

He had been drinking and “handled the situation inappropriately.”

Although Ishtiaq had served a prison sentence for drug dealing, he had not committed any offences since moving to Keighley from Birmingham with his family three years earlier.

He needed ten staples to his head after he was hit with the stick.

“It is a lasting reminder of the dangers of over-drinking,” Miss Peers said.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, said Ishtiaq was unhappy with his neighbours and armed himself in anger.

“This is just the sort of sequence of events that unhappily so often ends up with serious injury and even death,” he said.