A judge has jailed a Bradford rioter for three more years after hearing he was already serving a five-year sentence for his part in last year's violent clashes with police in Leeds.

Nadeem Qurban, 22, was told by Judge Roger Scott that the riot sentence would have to be served consecutively to his current jail term, but he pointed out that if he had been dealing with him solely for the Bradford riots he could have received up to six years for that alone.

Bradford Crown Court heard that Qurban, of Upland Grove, Oakwood, Leeds, was locked up in March this year after he admitted violent disorder and setting fire to a car during the violence in the Harehills area of Leeds last June.

He was already in jail for the Leeds offences when he finally pleaded guilty to the riot charge in relation to the Bradford disturbances.

His barrister, Nicholas Lumley, told Judge Scott that his client had started drinking heavily after the sudden death of his father and could not explain why he had come to Bradford.

Sentencing Qurban, Judge Scott told him: "You don't know why you came from Leeds to Bradford. Well I can tell you.From what I have seen you came to enjoy yourself and commit crime, if it was available to you, in the form of disorder."

A 70-minute video of Qurban's involvement over several hours showed him in a huddle with two other men before one of them hurled a petrol bomb.

Judge Scott also concluded that he had been encouraging others as they pushed two cars, one of them on fire, towards police lines. At one stage Qurban could also be seen using a lighter to set fire to something in the middle of the road and Judge Scott noted that another rioter may well have used that fire to set light to a rocket which was fired towards officers.

"The Crown indicates you were in the course of all these incidents encouraging people. In effect, that you were raising your hands, saluting and things like that. You did appear to be enjoying yourself for many an hour."

Judge Scott said he had also taken account of the fact that Qurban had also thrown a large number of missiles at police, sometimes at close range.

Mr Lumley said his client accepted that a consecutive sentence had to follow but he suggested that a "modest" term of 12 to 14 months would be appropriate. Qurban's previous convictions involved matters of being drunk and disorderly and he had started abusing alcohol after his father's death.

"It fell to him as the eldest male member of the family to begin to shoulder the responsibility for the family. To his great shame he was not able to cope with that responsibility and turned to alcohol."

The court heard that Qurban's photograph was published last September but he was not identified until December. He denied being in Bradford that day, but recognition procedures were carried out.