A JUDGE has jailed an angry man in his absence after he walked out of a prison video link room during his sentencing hearing at Bradford Crown Court.

Adrian Hudson had been told he was getting a two-year prison sentence for threatening a man with a knife in August last year.

As Recorder Christopher Rose was outlining the details of the case, Hudson, who had already interrupted him several times and been warned he would be muted if he didn’t stop, got up and left.

The court heard that Hudson, 28, of Sunbridge Road, Bradford, went round to the man’s Bradford home armed with a knife and made threats towards him.

Recorder Rose said that must have been an upsetting and distressing experience.

Then four days later, he went into the man’s flat again and trouble flared.

The complainant picked up a knife he had put under his pillow but during a struggle Hudson took it from him.

Hudson pleaded guilty to an assault charge on the basis that he acted in excessive self-defence. The court was told he struck his victim with an iron.

“It is easy to see why the complainant described himself as being terrified during the course of the incident,” Recorder Rose said.

During the struggle the man suffered a defensive injury to his right hand as he tried to grab the knife.

After his arrest Hudson assaulted a police officer while he was in custody.

He pleaded guilty to threatening with a bladed article, assault and an assault on an emergency worker at Trafalgar House Police Station on August 30.

The court heard that an officer went to the ground and suffered a hand injury.

Hudson’s barrister Clare Walsh said he accepted punching his victim during the struggle at the flat and assaulting him with the iron.

He regretted his actions and his first time in custody had been a sobering experience for him.

Recorder Rose made a five-year restraining order which bans Hudson from contacting the complainant or going into the road where he lives.