A man has been jailed for three years after repeated threats with a baseball bat.
Leeds Crown Court heard events started on April 10 when Ajaz Latif was confronted by a resident in Larch Road, Paddock, who was complaining about his drug use and driving up and down in the street.
Sam Andrews prosecuting said Latif was waving a baseball bat out of the window of a car and when the resident picked up a piece of wood and went over to confront him Latif swung the bat at the wood breaking it. Words were exchanged before Latif drove off making various threats about what he would do.
He was arrested on April 13 and claimed the allegations were false before he was bailed.
On May 17 he was captured on CCTV again waving a baseball bat in the street outside a bar in Queen Street, Huddersfield, when there was some fighting.
Mr Andrews said between May 20 and May 23 Latif harassed a family living in Heaton Road, Paddock after having a dispute with one of the daughters.
He would drive around the street revving his engine and being annoying. When the girl’s brother asked someone else to have a word with Latif he arrived at the house on May 20 telling another sister to send her brother out.
He called her a “dumb bitch” when she said she did not know what he was talking about.
The following day he again turned up at lunchtime to see her brother and wanting to fight him, when he refused words were exchanged before Latif drove off.
The next day he returned and suggested they fight on a local cricket pitch, an offer which was again rejected and when an uncle of the family arrived Latif and another man with him chased him down the street, waving baseball bats.
Mr Andrews said when Latif returned he struck a car window with the bat before leaving. The next time he turned up he had two or three others with him and when he was told the police had been called shouted “he’s a dead man” and other threats at family members.
On May 25 Latif was stopped in a car in New Hey Road and found to have a knuckleduster, crack cocaine and heroin which he said was for his own use.
Charlotte Worsley representing Latif said at the time he was heavily addicted to heroin and crack cocaine and “blames his actions on drugs.”
She said the offences happened over a relatively short period and since time on remand he had managed to get clean of drugs. He was also doing courses in English and maths and hoping to join a mentoring scheme.
Latif, 33, of Thorn Road, Thornton Lodge, admitted possessing heroin and crack cocaine, harassment, three offences of threatening or possessing the baseball bat as an offensive weapon and having the knuckleduster.
Jailing him Judge Neil Clark said over a few months in the springtime “You were a young man prepared to carry weapons on a regular basis.”
