A 22-year-old man was part of a hammer-wielding gang who smashed their way into a Bradford home at night, terrifying three generations of a family, a jury was told.

The six-strong group of intruders shattered car and house windows and kicked the door off its hinges in the attack at Ashbourne Way, Bolton, Bradford, at around 11.30pm on Monday, January 7, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.

Forhad Ahmed, of Binnie Street, Barkerend, Bradford, denies burglary with intent to do unlawful damage and damaging a Golf and a Mercedes parked at the house.

Prosecutor John Topham said Abdul Basith, his wife, sister-in-law, elderly parents and two young children were asleep in the house when the gang struck.

Mr Basith heard glass smashing and opened the door of his bedroom to be confronted by a man with a hammer on the landing. Two other men were coming upstairs.

Mr Topham said the Crown was not suggesting Ahmed had the hammer.

Mr Basith shut the bedroom door and when he emerged a little time later the intruders had gone.

Windows were broken, the television and other items were smashed and there was blood on the landing wall, the jury was told.

The front door was flat on the ground after it was knocked completely off its hinges.

Mr Topham said the blood on the landing was a DNA match for Ahmed.

The court heard that neither the Crown nor the police knew why the family was targeted.

Ahmed, a friend of the family, said he was told of the incident and went into the house to check if everyone was all right. He cut his hand on broken glass on his way in, the court heard. He left when he heard police had been called.

Mr Basith, a restaurant worker, told the jury his father, aged 80, and his mother, in her 60s, were sleeping downstairs when the house was attacked.

“I was woken at about 11.30 by the noise of someone outside,” he said.

“I opened the bedroom door and there was someone on the landing.

“My wife was screaming and my son was crying.”

Mr Basith said none of the three men he saw in the house was Ahmed.

He knew Ahmed well, he was a friend of the family, the court heard.

The court was told that the house was sealed off by the police for several hours after the incident.

The trial continues.