A talented amateur boxer and footballer has become the latest person to be locked up for his part in last summer's Bradford riots.

The city's Crown Court heard that 18-year-old Nisar Hussain had boxed for the Bradford Police Boys' Club and represented Yorkshire and England.

As a footballer he had captained a local league team and had been regarded as "something of a role model".

But on July 7 last year he was involved in the disturbances for more than four hours.

Hussain, of Kensington Street, Bradford, pleaded guilty to riot and was sent to a young offenders' institution for 12 months.

David Kelly, prosecuting, said that at 7.25pm Hussain was seen at the front of a hostile crowd in the White Abbey Road area. Two hours later, with his coat hood up and a black scarf covering the lower half of his face, he was again spotted among a large crowd.

He was seen to throw a missile at police lines and was still there at 11.30pm. Shortly before midnight he threw a large rock at a police van, said Mr Kelly.

After his photograph appeared in the Telegraph & Argus in January this year, Hussain handed himself into the police but refused to answer their questions.

In a second interview several weeks later, after being shown video evidence against him, he admitted taking part and throwing one stone. He told officers he felt "gutted" about his behaviour.

Sukhbir Bassra, mitigating, said his client was a person of previous good character who had behaved properly at all times.

"Nobody who knows him, least of all his family, expected him to get into this sort of trouble," added Mr Bassra. "It is a great tragedy. He will never be seen in the same light again."

He had hung around, watching the trouble unfold, and then been drawn into it but could not explain why.

Passing sentence, Judge Kerry Macgill said that as Hussain was only 17 at the time of the offence the maximum sentence available to the court was two years rather than the ten years in the case of an adult.

He was "in the thick of things" during the trouble that night and had he been an adult he would have faced a sentence of between three-and-a-half and four years, the judge added.