MORE than £8,000 damage was done to a house and four vehicles during a revenge attack in “an ongoing and volatile feud,” Bradford Crown Court heard.

A hammer-wielding gang in balaclavas terrified the householder and her daughter by smashing two windows at the address in Highfield Gardens, Heaton, Bradford, and damaging a black Mercedes, a white Range Rover and two Mitsubishi Shoguns.

In total, £8,600 of damage was caused in the incident at around 5pm on May 18 last year, prosecutor Jo Shepherd said.

Before the court were Farooq Hussain, 28, of Whites View, Girlington, Bradford, and Sohail Khan, 23, of Galsworthy Avenue, Heaton, Bradford.

Both were sent to the crown court for sentence by Bradford and Keighley magistrates after pleading guilty to criminal damage.

Each received a suspended sentence of imprisonment after the court heard they were “sucked into” the feud on the day and “tagged along.”

Hussain was badly injured in the incident, suffering five broken bones in his back and a leg injury, when he was crushed between two vehicles.

Miss Shepherd said the woman was at home with her teenage daughter when a blue Mitsubishi Shogun drove on to the lawn at speed.

A gang armed with hammers and a cosh got out and smashed the kitchen and living room windows. They drove into the vehicles parked on the drive and broke their windows.

Hussain ran screaming from the scene clutching his ribs after he was crushed between the gang’s Shogun and the black Mercedes it was ramming, Miss Shepherd said.

The police discovered that Khan had taken Hussain to Airedale Hospital where he spent a week being treated for serious injuries.

He told the doctor he had fallen off a quad bike and refused to discuss the matter with the police.

A claw hammer and a balaclava were seized from Khan’s car and Hussain had glass fragments from the Mercedes in his clothing.

Both defendants gave “no comment” interviews to the police.

Miss Shepherd said that £6,000 damage was done to the Mercedes, £800 to one of the Shoguns, £700 each to the second Shogun and the Range Rover and £400 damage to the house.

Mohammed Rafiq, Hussain’s barrister, conceded it was “an unsavoury matter.”

His client was sucked into it by misguided loyalty and broke a couple of windows before being badly injured and leaving the scene.

“He very much regrets ever having got himself involved in it at all,” Mr Rafiq said.

He did not know what he was getting himself mixed up in and had stayed out of trouble since.

Hussain was married with children and had no convictions for violence.

Andrew Walker, for Khan, said he foolishly went along with friends when feelings were running high.

Mr Walker told the court the feud might be about “someone’s sister being slighted.”

Khan was not wearing a balaclava and he kept his distance.

“He stayed basically in the background but he is guilty by virtue of joint enterprise on the day,” Mr Walker said.

Khan too had no record for violence and his partner was expecting their child.

Judge Hatton the incident was “a revenge attack in an ongoing, volatile feud.”

Both the defendants “tagged along” to what must have been a terrifying incident for the woman and her daughter.

“Public displays of violence cannot be tolerated,” Judge Hatton said.

Both men were sentenced to four months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months. Hussain must complete a four-month curfew order and Khan 180 hours of unpaid work.