Credit: Cleveland Police
An Asian hammer-wielding man roaming the streets in search of revenge during the summer riots has been jailed for 15 months.
CCTV footage shows two young boys running away as a gang runs into frame on Park Lane, Middlesbrough.
Akheel Khan, 24, an engineering graduate with a first-class honours degree, can be seen brandishing a hammer as the group searches the residential area.
He subsequently dodges several police officers before finally being arrested.
Khan had left his mosque on Aug 4 to find his car had been damaged in the civil unrest before he decided to search for the culprits, Teesside Crown Court heard.
He was spotted later that evening on Belk Street and Park Lane, flanked by two associates armed with metal poles.
Cleveland police responded to “reports of a group of Asian men fighting” at around 8pm.
In the CCTV footage, the gang can be seen dispersing as more than six officers arrive in a riot van and chase them down the road.
Police said that a number of the males escaped in a vehicle before crashing into another parked car and coming to a halt.
Khan, dressed in a dark top and grey joggers, was later cuffed and restrained by two policemen outside a nearby property.
He appeared in court having admitted violent disorder.
Michele Turner, his solicitor, asked the judge to consider suspending Khan’s sentence as he was a victim of his car being damaged.
The court heard that his job in Sheffield is being held open for him.
Ms Turner said that after prayers that day, Khan had stayed behind to discuss with others what they would do if the mosque came under attack.
Khan found his car damaged minutes after that discussion.
Judge Richard Bennett sentenced Khan, of Wheatley Close in Acklam, to 15 months in prison, of which he will serve 40 per cent before he is released on licence.
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