Outraged relatives of a man stabbed to death after a game of pool in a Bradford pub are to challenge the sentence handed down to his killer.

Father-of-two Gary Elwood, 41, was stabbed in the chest as he walked home from The Tempest pub in Holme Wood last November and died later in hospital.

Jason Lyons, 29, of Englefield Crescent, Holme Wood, was jailed for three and a half years after a jury at Bradford Crown Court cleared him of murder but found him guilty of manslaughter.

Mr Elwood's 23-year-old daughter Rebecca Elwood, who has looked after her 15-year-old brother Lee since her father's death, said the family were shocked.

"We were hoping he would get longer," she said.

"They said it could go either way - manslaughter or murder, but still get life.

"He'll only do about 15 months and then he'll be out. When you take somebody's life, you should do life.

"We were very close and it's hit Lee dreadfully.

"I've got a family - two children of my own - but Lee was 14 when it happened. He lived with dad and he's been left with nobody - it's hard for him.

"The barrister has said we can appeal against it, but he might not get much more of a sentence and we don't know if we will get an appeal.

"We are just going to have to wait and see."

After the hearing, Detective Sergeant Stephen Snow said members of Mr Elwood's family were obviously very disappointed with the outcome.

"They are gutted - devastated," he said.

"They are of the opinion that justice has not been done in this case."

During the trial which lasted nearly two weeks, the jury heard how Mr Lyons had been in a "difficult mood'' when he went to the Tempest pub and that he squared up to the landlord's son in a row over a beer glass.

Mr Elwood separated the two men and played a game of pool with Lyons.

Prosecutor Simon Bourne-Arton QC described how Lyons was then seen waiting outside the pub before following Mr Elwood and two friends when they left. Later that night, Mr Elwood was stabbed through the heart.

Lyons, who pleaded not guilty to a murder charge, claimed he could not remember anything about the incident because he had taken a mixture of alcohol, methadone and anti-anxiety tablets.

Defence barrister Roger Thomas QC said Lyons, who had not seen his father since he was two, had had the "most terrible life''.

"In November last year, he was genuinely in a very depressed state of mind because of the wretched life that he had brought upon himself as a result of long term drug abuse,'' Mr Thomas added.

Sentencing him, Judge Alistair McCallum told Lyons: "No sentence that I can pass will ever assuage the death of Gary Elwood or comfort his family or relatives."

Following the stabbing, a trust fund was set up by Mr Elwood's close friends, which will go to Lee when he is 18.