Two men were today starting lengthy jail sentences for their part in two serious incidents of public disorder.

Wasim Mumtaz, 27, was imprisoned for five-and-a-half years for violent disorder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

Naheem Mumtaz, 22, was locked up for three years and three months for two offences of violent disorder.

In the dock with them at Bradford Crown Court yesterday was civil servant Majid Hussain, 28, of Malsis Road, Keighley, who was sentenced for one offence of violent disorder.

He was spared prison after Judge Peter Benson was told he was the hero who disarmed a knifeman in Keighley town centre in August last year.

Prosecutor Geraldine Kelly said the three defendants admitted their parts in an attack at Central Taxis’ booking office at Keighley Railway Station on February 17, 2008.

Hussain was the driver and the Mumtaz brothers entered the office, along with others wielding weapons.

Windows and televisions were smashed and a staff member was cut by glass.

In all £1,000 worth of damage was caused. Naheem Mumtaz confessed to grabbing four phones and pulling out the wires. Wasim Mumtaz, of Carlton Street, Keighley, admitted wounding Mohammed Tariq in a mob-handed attack in Queen’s Road, Keighley, on March 24, 2008.

His brother, of the same address, pleaded guilty to violent disorder during the incident.

Wasim Mumtaz’s barrister Zoe Nield said he was not armed during either incident. He had matured and gained qualifications in custody.

David McGonigal, for Naheem Mumtaz, said he had kept out of trouble since he was released from a sentence for affray in February last year.

Shufqat Khan, for Hussain, showed the judge a copy of the Telegraph & Argus telling how he was hurt disarming Raheem Nawaz who tried to stab seven people outside Wetherspoons.

Hussain was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment suspended for two years with 220 hours’ unpaid work. After the case, a police spokesman said the Mumtaz brothers were the last of eight men convicted for the disorder on Queen’s Road.

He said: “Investigations into outbreaks of disorder in Keighley began early in 2008 and have seen detectives build painstaking cases over the past two years, relating to the Queen’s Road fighting and several outbreaks of violence.

“Alongside the criminal investigations, police also began an education programme among younger people in the town to warn them of the consequences of becoming involved in gangs and of carrying weapons.”