A gunman who fired two shots at a house in Bradford leaving a young mother seriously injured has been jailed for 15 years.

The victim, Ashleigh McPherson, 22, suffered two gunshot wounds to her stomach during the terrifying incident and had to undergo surgery to have three pellets removed from her breast, stomach wall and forearm.

Leeds Crown Court heard yesterday that Hasan Khan was already on bail for growing cannabis when he became angry and armed himself with a shotgun after being humiliated in a violent exchange with his victim’s brother Luke Orker earlier on May 16.

Mr Justice Edis said Khan had suffered a "substantial beating in public” in front of his home and had then decided to go to Mr Orker’s family home in Longfield Drive, East Bowling.

Once there, even though he realised Mr Orker was not present, he fired two shots, one into the kitchen and the second through the clear glass in the front door.

The judge said: “The evidence was quite clear that when it is a sunny day, as it was, the person at the front door can see the back door is open and can see anybody coming through it.”

The back door was open and Ashleigh McPherson, her child, another brother and mother were in the back garden. The judge said Khan knew the family's habits having lived at that house in the past and having children with Miss McPherson’s sister.

“So you knew the people who were going to be frightened or injured were members of the family who had done you nothing but good, who had done you no harm and you nevertheless fired,” said Mr Justice Edis.

Ashleigh, who was entering through the back door, was struck, but, fortunately, she had given her child to her mother to hold. “That child might easily have been hurt by what you did,” said the judge.

After the incident, Khan was driven to Blackpool in a car rented by Ann-Marie Pulford, whom he was seeing, and was arrested the following day.

A bag recovered from the vehicle contained petrol which was intended to clean gunshot residue.

Also recovered from the car were 83 wraps of cocaine and 60 wraps of heroin and a phone which the judge said revealed Khan and Pulford had been involved together in “an operation for some time selling Class A drugs to users.”

He told Khan: “I have no doubt you were the contact with the suppliers higher up the chain from which your stock was acquired and that she had a lesser role.”

Miss McPherson described in a victim impact statement how she still feels pain, particularly in her left hand, and still had pellets embedded in some fingers. She also still has bladder and stomach problems and suffers panic attacks.

The incident had a massive impact on her emotionally, particularly when she considers what might have happened had she been holding her baby daughter at the time.

Khan, 24, of Newlands Avenue, Fagley, Bradford was cleared by a jury of attempting to murder Miss McPherson but convicted of wounding her with intent. He admitted possessing a firearm with intent, producing cannabis and possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply.

Pulford, 25, from Blackpool, who was convicted of assisting an offender, had sentence adjourned until January for reports.

Mohammed Nawaz, representing Khan, said he realised he was facing a long sentence in total. It was his case he had gone to the house to fire only warning shots.