One of three men hunted by detectives investigating the Bradford riots was behind bars today after being jailed for three years.

Nadeem Tayab, 23, was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court yesterday after he handed himself over to police when he learned his photograph had been posted on the internet.

And officers today renewed a public appeal to help them catch Kabir Hussain, 25, and Mohammed Ayub Sheikh, 32 the remaining two suspects who are still on the run nearly five years after the riots of July 2001.

The Crown Court was told that Tayab, who pleaded guilty to riot, had gone to live in Southampton soon after and was unaware he was wanted until a friend called him to say that his picture was on the internet.

"It was not a case where he was out of the country and ran off," his barrister Khadim Al-Hassan said. "As soon as he found out he made arrangements to attend the police station."

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Stephen Gullick, was shown a video which showed Tayab hurling two large stones at lines of police.

Tayab was one of those whose pictures were published in February 2002 after what Judge Gullick described as "wanton, vicious and prolonged violence".

Prosecutor Lesley Dick-inson said that, as a result, there had been a lot a co-operation from the public, with many rioters turning themselves in.

But Tayab had already gone to live with his girlfriend on the south coast and remained unaware police were looking for him.

When Tayab, originally of Madni Close, Halifax, was arrested he said he could not emphasise how stupid he had been and said he had not been provoked by police.

He said: "I got taken away by it all. I'm struggling to come up with ways to explain to you what it was I was feeling, why I did what I did. There's no justification."

Mr Al-Hassan said that Tayab, a father-of-two, who was 18 at the time, did not know anybody in the crowd that night. He said: "These were minutes of his life which are now going to affect the rest of it."

Passing sentence, Judge Gullick said the disturbances had resulted in millions of pounds of damage and the shocking images had been transmitted nationwide, if not worldwide.

Tayab was the 184th person to be charged with riot and 46 people were charged with violent disorder after the worst outbreak of violence on the UK mainland for 20 years. Police took 244 cases to court resulting in guilty verdicts. Custody ranged from three months to 12 years.

After yesterday's case, a police spokesman urged anyone who knows of Hussain, of Heaton, Bradford, or Sheikh, of Great Horton, Bradford, to come forward.

She said: "These men are suspected of serious offences ... and were identified as a result of a ten-month police poster campaign, which urged the public to name people wanted in connection with the riots."

Anyone with information should call Bradford Central Police on (01274) 376459 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

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