A judge locking up a 22-year-old man said the public needed “a significant break” from him.

Recorder Mark Bury told Lee Thompson he was seriously out-of-control and jailed him for three years and three months.

Thompson’s co-accused, Michael Beale, 22, of Tinkler Style, Shipley, was imprisoned for 21 months.

Thompson, of Southcliffe Drive, Baildon, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and drink driving on June 29 last year.

Both defendants admitted racially aggravated actual bodily harm and theft on October 1.

Thompson pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and having an offensive weapon on October 9 and Beale to breach of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order on the same night.

Prosecutor Philip Standfast told Bradford Crown Court yesterday that Thompson wrote off a parked Alfa Romeo when he lost control of a Fiat on New Line, Bradford, while driving over the legal alcohol limit.

Both defendants attacked student Zaki Hussain as he took a cigarette break while working at Asda in Shipley.

Mr Standfast said Beale hit him first and Thompson joined in and took his phone. Mr Hussain was left scratched, cut and bruised.

Ten days later, Thompson attacked Jordan Hamilton-Thomas outside the Oddfellows pub in Idle, Bradford.

Beale joined in, breaching his ASBO.

Thompson stabbed Mr Hamilton-Thomas in the back with a kitchen knife, causing a wound needing stitches. He passed the weapon to Beale who was disarmed by an off-duty police officer.

The court heard that Thompson knew Mr Hamilton-Thomas and the two had been friends.

Thompson’s barrister, Ian Howard, said he pleaded guilty to all the offences at the earliest opportunity.

He did not intend to cause Mr Hamilton-Thomas any serious harm. He jabbed him with the knife while they were fighting.

Ian Hudson, for Beale, said alcohol and peer pressure contributed to his offending.

He struck the first blow to Mr Hussain but played a lesser role in the attack on Mr Hamilton-Thomas.