A BARE-CHESTED man hurled shards of glass from a broken window into the street and spat at a police officer and onlookers, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.

Fahmi Salh was shouting and screaming from the first floor of the address in Caledonia Road, Keighley, after the police were called in the early hours of February 28 last year, prosecutor Jayne Beckett said.

Salh, 27, was cutting himself with broken glass and throwing it into the street.

He appeared to be angry and he was holding a bottle in one hand, the court was told.

The bottle then dropped and smashed on to the pavement scratching a car parked beneath the window.

Salh, an asylum seeker with a Kurdish Sorani interpreter to assist him in court, then spat at a police officer and hurled racist abuse at him.

He also spat at residents who had gathered at the scene and threw a piece of glass at a police officer that only narrowly missed him.

Mrs Beckett said he continued to slash himself with glass and he made rude racist gestures.

Police officers carrying shields forced their way into the property and Salh put up his hands when he was threatened with a taser gun.

His hands were bleeding badly and he had cuts to his head and body. He was arrested and taken to hospital by ambulance, smelling strongly of alcohol.

Mrs Beckett said the disturbance lasted up to 45 minutes.

Salh was remanded in custody in January after breaching a non-molestation order made by Bradford Magistrates’ Court on October 1 last year.

He visited his former partner on January 9 in breach of the order.

Salh was sentenced on a video link to HMP Leeds where he had been held for seven months on remand.

He pleaded guilty to affray and breaching the non-molestation order at an earlier hearing.

His barrister, Paul Canfield, said Salh had suffered terrible oppression in Iraq and had been shot.

He had already served the equivalent of a significant prison term.

Judge David Hatton QC sentenced Salh to an 18-month community order for the affray with 40 rehabilitation activity days and an alcohol treatment requirement.

He was handed a 12-month conditional discharge for breaching the non-molestation order after saying he was invited round to the address.

A restraining order prohibits him from contacting his former partner.

Judge Hatton told Salh he behaved disgracefully that night and would be locked up again if he disobeyed court orders.