A MAN who broke his own sister’s nose and cheekbone with a single punch after their play-fighting “horseplay” erupted into violence has been jailed for 20 months.

Jordan Line, 24, had been out drinking in a group with Sotanis Mee in Shipley on December 21 last year before then returning to his sister’s house.

Prosecutor Philip Adams told Bradford Crown Court that as the gathering continued into the early hours of the following morning, Line and his sister started to “play-fight” with each other.

The court heard that as things got out of hand, Line’s sister reportedly said to him: “You’re lucky you’re my brother or I would have grabbed your balls.”

Mr Adams said that in response, Line grabbed his sibling “between her legs”, prompting her in return to punch his shoulder and kick out at him.

Line then hit his sister in the face with “full force”, knocking her unconscious so she fell backwards bleeding onto a sofa.

Witnesses to the attack managed to get Line outside, at which point he used a chair to smash glass in the door of the house trying to get back in.

Mr Adams said that Ms Mee had to receive hospital treatment for her “serious” injuries, which included fractures to her nose and right cheekbone and a cut to one of her eyebrows.

She later needed an operation to reset her nose.

Line, of Marsland Place, off Leeds Road, Bradford, was arrested on January 26, and in interview, he admitted he had his sister in a headlock during their fight but said she had punched him first.

The court was told the defendant had a number of previous convictions for offences involving some form of violence including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, battery, and threatening behaviour.

He had also served a 38-month prison term for four counts of robbery.

Abdul Shakoor, defending, said his client accepted that immediate custody was “inevitable.”

He said that the fight was “horseplay” that had clearly gone “badly wrong.”

He said that Line’s sister “used to be his best friend”, but that since the incident, he had lost the support of his family, a consequence that had “hit him hard.”

Mr Shakoor added that on his release from prison, the defendant wanted to return to society a “changed person.”

Addressing Line, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, said his early guilty pleas to charges of causing grievous bodily harm and criminal damage would count in his favour.

He told him: “You’re 24, and you’ve made a bit of a mess of your life so far.

“But, you’ve been straight with the court.

“I rather suspect you are gutted at what you have done to your sister.

“Your play-fighting turned very nasty, you lost your cool and hit her very hard, causing fractures to her face.

“It’s your record as well as the offence that causes the problem.

“Don’t come back Mr Line, I won’t forget you.”