Man is jailed over ‘revenge’ attacks

7:33pm Monday 13th October 2008

A man has been jailed for six years for vengeance attacks on two boys after his windows were smashed.

Inderjit Singh, 27, set about the youngsters, aged 14 and 16, with a hammer and baseball bat, a jury heard.

One suffered a serious head wound and the other a broken arm.

Singh was convicted by a jury yesterday of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, wounding with intent and affray after a trial at Bradford Crown Court.

Judge Jonathan Rose told Singh, of Geraldton Avenue, King’s Park, Bradford, he took the law into his own hands.

He branded the attacks, on a night in March last year, “vicious, violent and terrifying”.

Singh then pretended to be elsewhere when he was on the streets of Bradford wreaking havoc.

Judge Rose said he showed no remorse after attacking the youngsters, who were completely blameless.

The jury heard Singh suspected a group of teenagers of putting his windows through with ball-bearings. He and another man, who was never traced, armed themselves with the hammer and bat and went looking for the culprits.

The 14-year-old was struck on the head with a hammer in Ashbourne Way, Bolton, Bradford, causing a wound that had to be glued in hospital.

Singh demanded from him the names of those who had broken his windows.

The 16-year-old suffered a broken forearm when the second man hit him with the bat, the jury heard.

Singh was jailed for five years for the grievous bodily harm offences and an extra year for affray.

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