A CONVICTED killer has been jailed for nine years for threatening a Bradford family with a loaded Uzi sub-machine gun.

Jahanzeb Ismail, 44, stormed round to the home of Aftab Hussain in Girlington Road on a revenge mission after believing threats were made by him to his family, Bradford Crown Court was told.

Ismail was heard shouting he was going to kill Mr Hussain and was seen brandishing the gun and moving towards the house by Aftab Hussain's brother, Junaid Hussain, said prosecutor Gurdial Singh.

But Mr Hussain was not in the house at the time of the incident, at about 10.30pm on March 13 this year. Instead, the house contained his relatives Junaid Hussain, Nazmeen Akhtar and Iram Kousar.

Ismail also caused criminal damage to a Volkswagen Golf car parked outside the house.

The loaded sub-machine gun was later found by police on wasteland near Ismail's house in Upper Kipping Close, Thornton, after he was arrested at about 5am on March 14 this year.

The Uzi was found containing a clip with live ammunition but there was no evidence of the gun being discharged at the scene and no cartridges were found, the court was told.

Ismail, a father-of-three, pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

The court was told he was jailed for seven years in 1999 for the manslaughter of Nighat Afzal, 26, who he shot dead with a Beretta handgun at a flat in Bradford.

He was also jailed for five-and-a-half years in November 2011 for attempted robbery after using part of a vacuum cleaner he pretended was a gun to threaten a petrol station cashier.

Sentencing Ismail yesterday, Judge Roger Thomas QC told him he had subjected Mr Hussain's relatives to a terrifying ordeal.

He said: "The people who were in the house you went to must have been absolutely and utterly terrified by what was going on.

"You had some sort of grievance against Aftab Hussain, it was not clear what it was.

"It put you in such a state of mind. It put you in an agitated mood. But Mr Hussain was not present, he was abroad.

"This is as bad a case of its type that one can come across.

"It was a terrible weapon capable of repeated firing.

"When the gun was recovered it was loaded.

"This offence occurred 12 months to the date after you had been released from a sentence from 2011."

In mitigation, Mark McKone, said: "There is some history behind this but it was dealt with inappropriately.

"There was no justification for what he did. A car window was broken.

"Mr Ismail went round the premises after he said threats had been made to him and his family."