A DRUNKEN man who threatened to burn down two women’s homes in Saltaire has been jailed for 30 months.

Judge Andrew Hatton said Nathaniel Reeton, 36, of Victoria Road, Saltaire, had been heavily intoxicated when he was involved in ‘a catalogue of extremely unpleasant offences’ on December 28 last year.

After a trial at Bradford Crown Court in June, Reeton, a renderer, was found guilty by a jury of making a threat to burn down one woman’s home even after he had been arrested and put into the back of police van.

At the end of the trial he was acquitted on five other charges but he had already admitted two offences of criminal damage and a further charge of making a threat to burn down a second woman’s home.

The court heard Reeton had smashed windows in a caravan and been filmed on a mobile phone kicking a car.

Richard Walters, prosecuting, submitted that both of those incidents had been motivated by revenge.

Judge Hatton said Reeton had been involved in a ‘protracted and unseemly episode of behaviour’ and he ordered him to pay £1,000 compensation for the damage to the caravan and car.

Reeton, who has already served the equivalent of 16 months on remand, was also disqualified from driving for a total of 31 months.

He was banned by an indefinite restraining order from posting any comments about the complainants in his case on social media, including as WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat.