A drunken man who racially abused and beat up a late-night takeaway delivery driver before shouting: “This is my estate,” has been jailed for two years and eight months.

Regan Townley had downed seven pints of Carling when he launched the unprovoked attack on the older man, knocking out his tooth, bruising his eye sockets and elbows and fracturing his finger.

The victim had since given up his job working for the takeaway restaurant.

He spoke of suffering blurred vision and also sleepless nights after the attack, reliving the “torture” every day.

“I’ve never been so scared in my life,” he said in his victim personal statement.

Townley, 23, of Whitwell Grove, Elland, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm at 1.20am on January 7, 2018.

He was also sentenced for burgling a takeaway business in Elland on January 16, 2020; assaulting a former partner causing her actual bodily harm on March 28, 2020; and possession of cannabis and riding a motorcycle in Brighouse with no licence or insurance, all on November 22 last year.

He had eight previous convictions for 12 offences, including threatening behaviour, Bradford Crown Court was told yesterday.

Prosecutor Paul Canfield said the delivery driver was assaulted by Townley after one of the three other young men with him approached his car and sprayed him with sticky liquid from a plastic bottle.

Townley then shouted racist abuse at him and punched him to the head and face, carrying on with the assault after the man slipped and fell.

He burgled the takeaway overnight two years’ later, forcing entry and crawling across the roof space, leaving his blood at the scene. He made off with the £800 CCTV system, £120 in cash and a charity box for a local hospice. He also caused £500 damage at the premises.

Two months later, Townley attacked a former partner, squeezing her throat and headbutting her in the face.

The final offences were committed in Brighouse when the police caught him with 18 small bags of cannabis while riding a motorbike that was unlicensed and uninsured.

His barrister, Ian Hudson, said the offences were of some age and no more had been committed in recent months.

Townley had found employment as a landscaper and he had a new partner and a child.

At the time of the offending, he was mixing drink and drugs, the court heard.

He was now motivated to keep out of trouble and there was a good prospect of rehabilitation.

Judge Neil Davey QC said there were too many offences to spare Townley an immediate custodial sentence.

He was seriously intoxicated when he attacked the delivery driver, racially abusing him and punching him to the head and face even after he fell to the ground.

The innocent older man was vulnerable because he was out and about on his own at night.

The assault had devastated him and he had lost his confidence and given up his job.