A BRIGHOUSE man is behind bars for his part in a terrifying gun crime.
Paul Murphy, 35, has become the third person to be jailed after an innocent family were subjected to a terrifying gun ordeal outside a West Yorkshire pub.
Motorist Paul Kirby was driving his wife and two children along Lower Edge Road in Elland last September when they were caught up in a disturbance between rival groups outside the Royal Oak pub.
Mr Kirby drove into a cul-de-sac after a hail of bottles were thrown at three men who were parked outside the pub in a Land Rover Discovery.
He contacted the police when he saw one of the men from the car walking around with a sawn-off double-barrelled shotgun and during the early evening incident the gunman came towards his vehicle and pointed the weapon at the family.
Bradford Crown Court heard today how the family feared they were going to be shot.
The gunman and the other men left the scene in the Land Rover and they were arrested later by armed police after the vehicle was found near the Black Swan pub in Briggate, Brighouse.
Inside the car officers found the loaded shotgun, a meat cleaver and a machete.
In January Shaun Harper, 35, of Whinney Hill Park, Brighouse, and 35-year-old John Kerry, of Rosemary Close, Rastrick, were jailed for seven years each after they admitted possessing a prohibited weapon and possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
Harper also pleaded guilty to possessing the meat cleaver.
Murphy, of Bridge End, Brighouse, was jailed for six years and nine months after he admitted the same firearm offences.
The court heard in January that the men had acquired the shotgun with the intention of frightening members of a rival group and both Harper and Kerry denied that they had been the person who pointed the weapon at the Kirby family.
