A rioter who was caught on camera stabbing a man as disorder erupted in Bradford city centre has been jailed for eight years.

A Telegraph & Argus photographer captured the horrific moment when Mohammed Shakeel sunk a knife into his victim's back and stomach after he was chased and knocked to the ground by a rampaging mob close to Sunwin House.

Bradford Crown Court heard that despite the savage attack in which Shakeel struck out three or four times, Paul Laurie escaped with relatively minor injuries although another man was slashed on the leg as he tried to intervene.

The Honorary Recorder of Bradford, Judge Stephen Gullick, highlighted how the photographs clearly showed Shakeel pulling the knife from his pocket while Mr Laurie laid on the floor under a torrent of blows.

"You then ran up and stabbed him quite deliberately in the back as he lay on the road surface causing a three centimetre cut," he said.

"As you were stabbing out at him you wounded in the calf a man called Karl Johnson who was standing over Laurie and was trying to help him."

Judge Gullick told 22-year-old Shakeel carrying a knife was a very serious offence.

Prosecutor John Topham told how Mr Laurie - said to have travelled from Wakefield to go shopping - needed three stitches to his back wound. The cut to his stomach was treated with adhesive strips.

Mr Johnson did not even realise he was injured until he was helped by staff from the nearby Kirkgate Centre but needed internal and external stitches to a wound.

Last month Shakeel, of Woodville Terrace, Little Hor-ton, pleaded guilty to wounding Mr Laurie with intent to do him grievous bodily harm and unlawfully wounding Mr Johnson. He also pleaded guilty to riot, having hurled stones at police at least eight times over an eight-hour period in the troubles last July.

Judge Gullick had placed a ban on reporting the case but yesterday lifted this following an application by the T&A.

Mr Topham said that in 1998 Shakeel was jailed for nine months for head-butting a Bradford College tutor.

Timothy Stead, for Shakeel, said his client's 22-year-old wife is suffering from kidney failure and a heart condition.

He said the victims' injuries were 'not as grave as one might have anticipated' and added 'perhaps more importantly they were not life-threatening'.

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