A thug who carried out a savage revenge attack has been locked up for four years.

Robert Bolton, 20, and his uncle, David Bolton, smashed their way into a flat at 3am.

They were out for retribution after the occupant, Martin Kelly, had earlier gone to their family home in Canterbury, Bradford, armed with a knife.

Robert Bolton, of Melbourne Road, Canterbury, pleaded guilty in February to aggravated burglary on November 14 last year.

David Bolton, 38, of Heather Grove, Keighley, admitted the offence on the day of his trial.

Prosecutor John Topham told Bradford Crown Court yesterday that the Crown accepted David Bolton did not cause Mr Kelly’s injuries and acted as peacemaker at the scene.

Mr Topham said Mr Kelly went to the family home, at Melbourne Road, that night with a knife, looking for his girlfriend, shouting and causing trouble.

Robert Bolton’s grandmother pushed Mr Kelly out of the garden and called the police.

Mr Kelly, who had been drinking, later fell asleep on the living room floor of his flat in Stoneacre Court, West Bowling.

Robert Bolton and his uncle broke in by smashing a window.

Mr Kelly recalled being struck on the head by Robert Bolton with a bottle. He then attacked Mr Kelly with a coffee table leg.

Mr Kelly, who drifted in and out of consciousness, told police he was also punched and kicked by Robert Bolton. The flat was left spattered with blood and furniture was damaged.

Mr Kelly was treated in hospital for cuts to his head and lips and grazes to his face and arms.

Robert Bolton later told police Mr Kelly deserved what he got.

“I gave him a good beating,” he said, adding he bottled Mr Kelly and “stamped all over him”.

Peter Moulson, barrister for both uncle and nephew, said Mr Kelly had been sentenced to a community order for possessing the knife.

He said the men went to his flat unarmed and Robert Bolton acted in a “stupid way” to exact retaliation.

Judge Alistair McCallum told Robert Bolton he set about Mr Kelly with “some gusto” causing very serious injuries.

David Bolton was sentenced to 51 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, with a curfew order until March 31 after the judge said he stepped in as peacemaker when things got out of hand.

After the hearing, Police Constable Jane Hebdon, of Bradford South CID, said: “This was a particularly nasty attack and I would like to praise the resilience of the victim and the witnesses in this case.”