Two brothers who fractured a man’s skull with hammers in a vicious revenge attack in a Bradford street have each been jailed for eight years.

Bilaal Zeb, 25, spent four days in hospital after he was dragged from his smashed-up car and attacked in the street by Israr Zahir and Ishtiaq Zahir.

The brothers, both of Springbank Place, Manningham, Bradford, were convicted by a jury of wounding Mr Zeb with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.

They were also found guilty of assaulting Mohammed Khan and causing him actual bodily harm.

Mr Zeb, 25, of Woodview Terrace, Manningham, suffered a depressed skull fracture, broken ankle and bruising in the attack in Bradford Road, Frizinghall, at 10pm on August 7 last year.

Mr Khan was injured by hammer blows to his legs.

Yesterday, the trial judge, Recorder Mark Bury, told Israr Zahir, 31, and Ishtiaq Zahir, 30: “You deliberately and callously extracted revenge.”

He said the brothers harboured ill-feeling towards Mr Zeb, said to have begun after “dirty looks” at a funeral.

The brothers, and another man who has not been traced, decided to take revenge.

They pulled up in a car behind Mr Zeb’s vehicle, smashed his windows with hammers and set about him in the street.

The judge accused the brothers of fabricating evidence in the trial by using bogus CCTV footage purporting to show Mr Zeb trying to buy them off after he was accused of attacking Israr Zahir.

On Friday, a jury cleared Mr Zeb and his brother, Naveed Zeb, 33, of wounding Israr Zahir with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm on February 11 last year.

Israr Zahir’s barrister, Stephen Uttley, said he was a family man whose imprisonment would have a profound effect on those close to him.

Richard Clews, for Ishtiaq Zahir, said a chance encounter sparked the hammer attack and Mr Zeb’s injuries were not life-threatening.

His client was married with three children and neither brother had a history of violence.

After the case, Detective Inspector John Priestley, of Airedale and North Bradford CID, said: “This was a brutal attack and the substantial sentences awarded by the court no doubt take this into account.

“This should leave those intent on committing this level of violence on our streets in no doubt that they will be caught and severely punished.”