A “LITTLE gangster” who attacked a partially-sighted man with a chair outside his Bradford home has been warned he faces a lifetime of prison sentences unless he changes his ways.

Usman Khan, 18, was one of three men who went to Mahboob Hussain’s house on Carlisle Place in Manningham on July 5 to confront him and Mohammed Imran.

Prosecutor Alisha Kaye told Bradford Crown Court that Mr Hussain, who suffers from “tunnel vision”, and Mr Imran had been in the house when they received a call from Khan in relation to a dispute over the theft of a pipe from a hairdressers shop.

After the call ended, Khan, of nearby Salt Street, Manningham, and two accomplices went to the address, where they began shouting and making threats to smash the windows and damage a car parked outside.

Miss Kaye said that the three men then picked up stones and bricks and began hurling them at the house, almost hitting Mr Hussain’s grandchildren, aged three and eight, who were at the property at the time.

As the defendant began walking away, Mr Hussain came out of the house to follow the men with his two daughters, one of whom began filming the group on her phone. When Khan saw this, he turned back towards the house and picked up a chair from outside a neighbouring car showroom.

Miss Kaye said Khan then struck Mr Hussain to his head and chest, “luckily” only causing minor injuries, before a member of staff came out of the showroom and pulled him off.

He was identified by police and arrested the following day, when officers also found a small amount of cannabis on him.

Khan had pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, affray, and possession of a class B drug prior to yesterday’s sentencing hearing.

Lorraine Harris, for Khan, admitted her client had an “unenviable record”, with convictions for violence and public disorder dating back to 2015.

She described him as a “very troubled young man” whose life had “gone off the rails” since his father left the family home.

She stated that a pre-sentence report, in which Khan had claimed he attacked Mr Hussain in self-defence, had shown “glimmers of hope that he was moving in the right direction.”

In response, Judge Jonathan Rose said: “This was a month after he received a community order at magistrates court, how is he moving on? This was a dreadful attack. It wasn’t remotely self-defence, it was trying to get away with what he had done.”

Sentencing Khan to 21 months in a young offenders institution, Judge Rose told him he deserved to be “ashamed” of his actions in attacking a “vulnerable” man.

He said: “You equipped yourself to go on the attack. You decided to act like a little gangster.

“He wanted you to face the law for what you had done, and you carried out a horrendous piece of violence that was nowhere near self-defence. Have you the remotest idea what you could have done to this man? One blow to the head and you could have blinded him for life.

“You are looking at a lifetime of repeated custodial sentences unless you change your behaviour.”