A MAN has been jailed for going into the office of his girlfriend's workplace and beating up one of her colleagues over comments allegedly made about her.

Dev Sangha went into the office at Marcus Transport on December 7, 2018, and punched logistics manager Steve Harrison and then fought with him on a desk and rolled onto the floor in a sustained assault.

After the struggle was broken up, Sangha went out to his car and returned with two knives, trying to enter the office again while carrying them in his hand.

The court heard that he had drunk heavily and taken cocaine the night before.

The incidents at the company on Friars Industrial Estate, Bradford Road, Idle, were caught on CCTV which was shown at Bradford Crown Court yesterday.

Judge David Hatton QC sentenced Sangha, 48, of no fixed address, to 22 months in prison for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and a further two months consecutively for an attack on a car in a separate road rage incident.

Judge Hatton said: "You behaved in a violent and threatening manner.

"You had two vicious knives. I don't accept that you took them in for your own protection. You took them in to frighten and threaten.

"Once in the premises you conducted a purposeful repeated assault. Happily it did not result in him receiving a serious injury."

The court heard that Sangha, who had previous convictions for violence and criminal damage, was with his partner Joanne Jeffrey at their home their previous evening when she complained about comments made at work which she felt belittled her.

After dropping her off at Marcus Transport the next morning, Sangha, the manager for a Bradford car dealership, made a business call to the freight company which became heated.

The court was told he then went back to the firm. Ms Jeffrey had gone to the warehouse and Sangha stormed into the office with the knives shouting "Where is she, where the f**k is she".

The prosecutor said he returned without the knives and attacked Mr Harrison, throwing a punch at him, causing a cut above his eye, and wrestling with him on the desk and then on the floor shouting "I'm having you".

A group of other staff arrived and broke up the fight after about six minutes. Sangha went out to his car and returned with the two knives. Staff prevented him from getting back into the office by holding the door closed but managed to lunge at one with a blade through a serving hatch from the vestibule.

He drove off with a police officer chasing him after they arrived.

The court was told the knives, one with a 12-inch blade, had been in Sangha's car because they had been recently used to cut a cake at a work birthday celebration.

One was found in the footwell of his car the following day and he was arrested the next day.

The court heard the separate road rage attack happened earlier on December 7.

Sangha pulled out in front of a woman driving along Bradford Road causing her to slam on her brakes.

He then got out his vehicle, walked towards her car and punched the windscreen, shattering it and causing damage to the value of £300.

He shouted at the woman and tried to grab her phone saying "I'm a f***king gangster".

Judge Hatton said Sangha had got out his car in a rage and confronted the lady driving the other vehicle.

In mitigation, Sangha's barrister said he had not been thinking rationally that day due to the cocktail of drink and drugs and had become paranoid over time.

She said he apologised for what he had done and had taken steps to get off drink and drugs while on remand in prison, taking part in programmes.

Sangha admitted assault of Mr Harrison occasioning actual bodily harm, causing the damage to the woman's car in the road rage incident, charges of possessing a knife in a public place, two other cases of assault and causing damage to a Land Rover Discovery parked in the car park at the transport firm's base.

In addition to the two-year sentence, Sangha was given an indefinite restraining order prohibiting him from attending the premises of Marcus Transport.