A 31-year-old man who was jailed last week after after he retracted a witness statement he made following a shooting incident in Bradford has had his prison sentence reduced.

Judge David Hatton QC told Mohammed Raheel Munir last Thursday that "two dangerous men" had escaped justice as a result of his actions, but today the defendant was brought back to Bradford Crown Court for his jail term to be reviewed.

The judge said he had thought "long and hard" about the four-and-a-half year sentence he imposed for perverting the course of justice, but he stood by his comments about the extent to which justice had been impeded by Munir's actions.

"Those things having been said, having reflected as I've indicated that I have, long and hard, I consider that I was in error in fixing a starting point as high as I did and I propose to adjust the sentence accordingly," said Judge Hatton.

The judge had originally indicated a starting point of six years following a trial for the offence, but today he said the starting point should have been four years.

Munir, of Abingdon Street, Bradford, pleaded guilty to the offence meaning that a reduction of 25 per cent was appropriate and his four-and-a-half year prison term was therefore cut to three years.

Last week Judge Hatton said a series of very serious incidents took place in broad daylight on September 1 last year.

It is understood that a shotgun had been fired towards another group of men in the Laisteridge Lane area of the city at about 6.30pm.

"You were a witness to those incidents and indeed a potential victim of the use of the firearm," the judge told Munir.

Munir gave a statement to police in which he implicated two men and he later picked one of them out during identification procedures.

"As a result those two men were arrested, charged and were to stand trial in this court earlier this year," said Judge Hatton.

"You subsequently retracted your statements indicating that those two men were innocent.

"As a result of that retraction of your evidence those two dangerous men escaped justice and the effect of your retraction was that the Crown could not proceed to bring them to justice."