An angry customer who beat up a garage owner who charged him for a car part has been jailed for nine months.

Convicted drug dealer Herris Zulffkar told mechanic Masoud Shirazi: “I’m going to burn all the cars in your garage,” Bradford Crown Court heard.

Zulffkar and an accomplice then attacked Mr Shirazi at his premises, Kensington Motors in Girlington, Bradford.

Mr Shirazi had left his phone on and his cries reached his wife who rushed to assist him, prosecutor Francis Radcliffe told the court yesterday.

Zulffkhar, 23, of Lynton Grove, Heaton, Bradford, fled, along with the other man.

Zulffkar pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr Shirazi and causing him actual bodily harm on May 30 last year.

Mr Radcliffe told the court Zulffkar meted out “a rather nasty beating” when Mr Shirazi said he would have to pay for a replacement part for his car.

The mechanic offered to fit it free of charge but Zulffkar lost his temper and told his accomplice to close the garage door.

Mr Shirazi suffered cuts, bumps and grazes when both men attacked him.

The court heard that Zulffkar was jailed for three and a half years in August 2006 for possessing heroin with intent to supply.

In mitigation his barrister, Tahir Khan, said Zulffkar was valued in the community for his voluntary work and the assault was “an isolated lapse on his part”.

He acting spontaneously in temper and now regretted it.

“Ordinarily, he is a decent young man and he has a stable family life,” Mr Khan said.

Judge Jonathan Durham QC said it was a sustained attack orchestrated by Zulffkar. “You showed a streak of real nastiness,” the Judge told him.