A householder, who has endured three years of hell from young motorists playing deafening music from their cars, yesterday told of his anger after he was taken to Court.

Self-employed landscape gardener Matthew Thompson, 38, finally snapped after a 17-year-old scooter rider narrowly missed him as he walked near his home in Wilsden last September.

Mr Thompson picked up the teenager’s helmet and swung it at him, knocking him off his bike and causing a bruise to his head.

Yesterday he pleaded guilty at Bradford Crown Court to causing actual bodily harm and criminal damage and was ordered to do 60 hours’ unpaid work for the community and pay £400 compensation to the complainant.

Judge Robert Bartfield told him: “You lost your temper with this boy who was driving up and down outside your house.”

He said the defendant had hit the teenager repeatedly and damaged his scooter, but he believed he regretted what he had done.

After the case, Mr Thompson, of Birkshead, Wilsden, told how he and other residents had been plagued since 2007 by young men in up to 70 cars using a nearby industrial estate.

He said: “They were using it for wheel spinning and playing rave music – cruising. It went on from 6pm to as late as 3am, six days a week. When we were sat in the front room, we could hear this awful thumping sound above the TV.

“On this particular evening I was walking past the industrial units when this lad nearly knocked me down with his scooter. He was pulling his mate along at the back of his scooter. I don’t think they realised I was there.

“It was the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

Mr Thompson, who lives with girlfriend Kathryn White, said he knew he would be prosecuted but felt angry about it and was considering whether he could claim back the police precept he had paid.

He claimed: “We have made more than 60 calls to the police about the problem but either they don’t turn up or by the time they do, the people have gone. After two-and-a-half years all we’ve had is a crime number. The only time we started to see any action was when I contacted our MP Philip Davies and he got on to senior officers.

“It’s better now than it was, but they have still been there three or four times in the last month. The answer to the problem would be to take the cars off them and crush them and the police have the powers to do that.”

Mr Thompson added: “I am a bit fed up that it’s ended with me in court, but I just have to take it.”

After the case, a spokesman for Bradford North and Airedale Police said Bingley Neighbourhood Policing Team had made the issue a local priority.

“By doing this we have shown how seriously it has been taken by officers. However, we cannot condone the actions admitted by Mr Thompson in court, however regrettable the overall circumstances.

“We continue with our commitment to tackle anti-social driving at this location in future.”