A FATHER-OF-TWO threatened to “knock the teeth out” of a bus driver, magistrates heard this week.

Mohammed Qamar Zaman, 32, of St George’s Place in Bradford, pleaded guilty at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court on Monday to using threatening or abusive behaviour with intent to cause fear.

Zaman, the court heard, was driving in Manningham Lane, Bradford, on September 12 last year when he saw “red mist”, using his car to block in a Transdev bus travelling from Bradford to Keighley and then boarding it.

In front of 50 passengers, the court heard, Zaman threatened the woman driver –59-year-old Denise Ryder, from Exley Head in Keighley – and told her he would “knock her f****** teeth out”, raising his hand towards her.

The Keighley News carried an interview with mum-of-hour Mrs Ryder last December, in which she spoke of her terrifying ordeal during the incident on the bus.

Zaman, who has previous convictions, including an harassment offence in 2010 and a further offence in 2013, continued to hurl abuse at the driver.

A nurse, who was a passenger on the bus, gave a statement to police saying she remembered there were two children in the back of Zaman’s car, neither of whom were wearing seatbelts. Zaman was arrested in Birmingham on January 4 and admitted being the driver of the car.

In mitigation, it was said: “He has two children aged 11 and seven. He feels deeply ashamed by this incident.

“He is a reserved man but felt a bite of anger when this incident happened.”

Adjourning the case for reports, magistrates warned Zaman all options, including possible custody, would remain open.

Chairman of the bench, Martin Nolan, said: “We have heard about a very serious incident today.

“The victim showed genuine fear when you threatened her. This incident is exacerbated by the fact the driver was female, a public servant in the course of her duties, there were passengers on the bus and there were children in your own car.

“There was nothing mitigating in this case, nothing in your favour at all and your record makes us concerned this is the beginning of an escalation of offending.”

The case was adjourned until February 11 for sentencing.