A FEUD between families erupted into violence when two men threatened one another with a ball and chain and a fire extinguisher, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Shane Vickers and David Enright, who appeared separately in the dock to be sentenced, were both locked up for the affray at the Co-op store in Victoria Road, Oakworth, on June 23 last year.

Prosecutor Gareth Henderson-Moore said Enright spotted Vickers in the shop when he was driving past.

He parked up, got a plastic ball on a chain from the boot of his car and stood outside the store goading Vickers with the weapon, saying: “Look what I’m going to do to you outside.”

Vickers picked up a fire extinguisher and threw it at Enright’s Peugeot 206 as he drove off, the court was told.

Vickers, 19, of Westfell Road, Keighley, and Enright, 35, a serving prisoner, both pleaded guilty to affray. Enright also admitted possession of an offensive weapon and Vickers pleaded guilty to criminal damage.

Vickers was also sentenced for possession of a bladed article, a machete, in Oakworth Road on May 25 last year and witness intimidation and common assault.

Mr Henderson-Moore said he chased after Enright, who was driving past in his vehicle. He was brandishing the weapon and shouting: “Enright, I’m going to kill you.”

On August 20 last year, Enright and Vickers met by chance on the concourse at Bradford Crown Court.

Vickers made threats and swung a punch that hit a young woman, who was with Enright, on the back of the head. She stumbled backwards dazed, and suffered a lump to her head, Mr Henderson-Moore said.

Giles Bridge, Vickers’ barrister, said he had pleaded guilty to the offences and he was still a young man who had just turned 20.

The offences arose out of a feud between the two families, Mr Bridge said.

Vickers did not deliberately seek out Enright with the machete, or at the Crown Court. Words were exchanged on both sides in the court building and Vickers accepted that he had taken things further and that he had behaved badly.

Mr Bridge said that Enright caused the violence outside the Co-op, although Vickers accepted that he should have stayed in the shop.

Vickers had now been remanded in custody for more than two months. He wanted to end the feud and stay offence-free in the future.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, said the most serious offence was the witness intimidation.

“You bashed a witness on the day of the trial,” he said.

Vickers was sent to a young offender institution for a total of 20 months.

Enright, who is serving a 28-month prison sentence for causing grievous bodily harm to a glass collector at the Albert Hotel in Bridge Street, Keighley, was jailed for six months, starting from then.

Sentencing Enright, Judge Durham Hall said that he himself was familiar with the Co-op in Oakworth.

He told Enright: “It’s a nice shop with nice people who don’t want to see you and Shane Vickers washing your dirty linen in public.”