A drunken 28-year-old who racially abused a takeaway driver and then trashed the car he was using has been jailed for a total of 15 months.

Delivery man Mohammed Saleem had been helping a colleague to find Nigel Brannan's home in Milner Ing, Delph Hill, Wyke, but while he was standing at the front door Brannan turned up and started abusing him.

Bradford Crown Court was told by prosecutor Stephen Wood that after Brannan threatened to kill Mr Saleem he ran away, but he heard him shout: "I gonna smash your car.''

Mr Saleem watched as Brannan threw a brick through the windscreen of his father's Volkswagen Golf and then heard more breaking glass as he fled. Mr Wood said a neighbour saw Brannan hitting the car with a metal bar in what she described as a "frenzied attack''. Brannan struggled with two police officers who had to call for urgent assistance.

Brannan pleaded guilty to charges of racially aggravated threatening behaviour, criminal damage and resisting arrest. He was jailed for six months.

But Mr Wood said that at the time of the incident Brannan had been on the run for about 15 months after failing to surrender to court for other offences, including burglary and theft.

Brannan pleaded guilty to those offences and three offences of failing to surrender. He was sentenced to a further nine months in prison.

Barrister Sophie Drake, for Brannan, stressed that he had not been seeking to avoid the police while he was "on the run" and had in fact been living at his home during that 15-month period.