Burglar locked up after he "waged war" against family

A BURGLAR "waged war on a family" by smashing windows at homes, a car and a business they once owned.

Muhammad Ishfaq took revenge after a member of the family slapped him around his face and forced him into a car when they thought he was planning a break-in.

Ishfaq, who has previous convictions for burglary, was spotted in a car allegedly looking at a property when the family member threatened him, slapping him in the face and forcing him in to their car, Nottingham Crown Court heard.

The incident happened on May 2 this year and later that day Ishfaq decided to get his own back.

Armed with a small scaffolding pole, he smashed ground-floor windows at their home in Sherwood Rise and the windows of their Mercedes.

A member of the family was cut in the face and knee by flying glass as a window in a front door was smashed.

Ishfaq then visited an Indian restaurant in Haydn Road, Sherwood, and threw bricks through the windows. He went to another property connected to the family in Basford and smashed the windows there with a scaffolding pole.

"Because the defendant was known to the family he was named and arrested," said prosecutor Samuel Skinner. "He said he was furious about the way he'd been treated."

Ishfaq, 24, of Laurie Avenue, Forest Fields, pleaded guilty to four charges of criminal damage and one of assault causing actual bodily harm.

Recorder Nirmal Shant QC sentenced him to eight months in prison, of which he will serve half.

The judge said Ishfaq's reaction to what had happened was "disproportionate and inappropriate" in that he decided to wage war on the family.

William Bennett told the court in mitigation that, after being slapped and forced into the car, Ishfaq should have gone to police.

He said his client was a habitual burglar with a criminal record.

"He went home and ruminated on it and he let it get on top of him and he went out and did this," said Mr Bennett.

"He comes to this court very, very ashamed."

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