The man who repeatedly rammed a car on Bradford’s Holme Wood Estate shortly before the quad bike murder of teenager Rahees Mahmood has been jailed for 16 months.

Frankie Simpson pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage to a Volkswagen Golf parked on Broadstone Way on the afternoon on June 3 last year.

Simpson, 20, whose address is given as HMP Holme House, did £14,867 damage to the black Motability car causing it to be written-off by the insurance company.

Bradford Crown Court heard today that he had previous convictions for criminal damage, dangerous driving, robbery and burglary and had been recalled to custody until next year.

Prosecutor Simon Clegg said that Simpson and three other males collected a Nissan Terrano at 3.40pm and he drove it to a local park and then on to Broadstone Way.

He stopped the 4x4, turned it round and deliberately reversed at speed into the Golf up to three times before driving off.

Later that day the Terrano was set on fire by an unknown person and ‘fully torched.’

“The Crown submits that the actions of Mr Simpson were part of the tensions on Holme Wood Estate that day,” Mr Clegg said.

The males on the quad bike inspected the damage to the car before turning up at an address in Holme Wood where Simpson and Jordan Glover were.

Mr Clegg said the criminal damage was ‘partially causative’ of the events leading up to Mr Mahmood’s murder by Glover.

Last week, Glover 24, from the Thorpe Edge area of Bradford, was jailed for life with a minimum term of more than 18 years after a jury convicted him of murdering Mr Mahmood and of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Tommy-Lee Haigh, 19.

He was cleared of causing criminal damage to the Volkswagen Golf shortly before the fatal crash on Broadstone Way.

Simpson’s barrister, Jessica Heggie, conceded that there was an intention to cause serious damage but it was an offence committed on impulse.

She accepted that the commission of the offence was partially causative of the events that followed but Simpson didn’t accept that it was a revenge attack on the vehicle.

He was 19 and immature at the time and it was an offence perhaps ‘borne out of mischief.’

He had gone off the rails in his teenage years but since his remand into custody he had lost close friends and he was now determined to turn his life around.

Miss Heggie asked Judge Andrew Hatton to pass a sentence as short as possible commensurate with his public duty and one that started today.

Judge Hatton said Simpson had driven the Terrano up and down in a park where people were walking dogs and children were playing.

He then went on to Broadstone Way, turned the vehicle round and reversed up to three times at speed deliberately into a parked Volkswagen Golf.

He and Glover then changed vehicles and Glover drove him to inspect the damage to the car. The people on the quad bike also inspected the damage to the Golf before attending at an address where Glover was.

Judge Hatton said there was clearly a connection between the damage to the Golf and the quad bike turning up. It was all part of the wider tensions on the estate heard about in Glover’s trial.

Organised gangs were fighting for turf or for other reasons. Tensions were rising and the death of Rahees Mahmood minutes later had no doubt inflamed tensions even further, he stated.

The damage to the Golf was out of revenge or to ‘deliberately antagonise’ by writing it off, Judge Hatton said.

Simpson was banned from driving for two years and eight months.

During Glover’s trial, Jason Pitter QC, for the Crown, said that he had forced the quad bike off the road killing its passenger, Mr Mahmood, and seriously injuring Mr Haigh, the bike’s rider.

Mr Mahmood died from a massive head injury after being thrown from the bike hit by Glover’s Ford Focus. Mr Haigh was hospitalised with multiple fractures.

The court heard that Glover was a back seat passenger in the Nissan Terrano rammed the Golf. He was cleared by the jury of the criminal damage offence.

Mr Pitter said that soon afterwards, the quad bike arrived with Mr Mahmood on the back armed with a pitchfork, and there was a machete as well recovered from the crash scene. A moped was with the quad bike at that stage and the people on both of the bikes had weapons.

Glover gave chase and on Broadstone Way his Ford Focus quickly closed the gap with the quad bike. Within moments he had made sustained contact with the machine which rotated anti-clockwise throwing Mr Mahmood and Mr Haigh off it.

Sentencing Glover, Judge Hatton said the arrival of the quad bike was related to gang rivalry on the Holme Wood Estate. Glover had allowed himself to become embroiled in it and had used his car as a weapon.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 19 years, less the time he had spent in custody on remand, making a figure of 18 years and 46 days.