A PROLIFIC offender has been jailed for a string of offences against public servants including a prison officer and a train guard.

Haroon Shah, 26, of Olive Grove, Fairweather Green, Bradford, had 41 previous convictions for 61 offences, including multiple public disorders, possession of a bladed article and racially aggravated harassment.

He was locked up for seven months at Bradford Crown Court when he appeared on a video link to HMP Leeds where he was remanded.

The court heard that the British Transport Police are applying for a Criminal Behaviour to ban him from travelling on the railway.

Prosecutor Emily Jenkins said the threats to kill was directed at a prison officer in September, 2019, while Shah was serving a sentence for robbery in HMP Moorland.

When the officer accidentally stood on his foot, Shah asked if he was racist and raged: ‘I’ll wait until I see you on the outside.’ The common assault in August, 2020, was directed at a police community support officer on patrol at Forster Square Retail Park in Bradford.

People complained to him that Shah and another man had been shouting at them. Shah then threatened to ‘lamp’ the officer. He squared up to him and said he would grab a knife.

On February 10 last year, he committed the threats to damage property and harassment offences against his probation officer.

Shah complained to her of being able to smell crack cocaine at night and being disturbed by sex workers in the accommodation he had been given.

He sent the officer two voicemails calling her a slag and saying: “I’m coming down to probation to smash your windows.”

On August 25, 2021, he assaulted a guard on the late afternoon Leeds to King’s Cross train.

When asked for his ticket, Shah said he would sort it out when he got to London. He then leapt out of his seat, leant his head close to guard’s and pushed him twice.

The British Transport Police apprehended him on the train at Doncaster. When searched, Shah had cannabis secreted in his buttocks.

The guard said he suffered a trapped nerve in his shoulder and was off work for six weeks.

Andrew Dallas said in mitigation that Shah was a prolific low-level offender who had been diagnosed with a learning disability, ADHD and a low IQ.

The threats to kill the prison officer was a passing remark; there was no violence used against the PCSO; the threat to break the probation office windows was a result of Shah being stressed by the accommodation he was put in and the harassment was of very short duration.

Shah’s had a very supportive relationship with his current probation officer, Mr Dallas said.