A 22-YEAR "Normanton hard man" who led a 20-strong gang in an attack on a "wholly innocent man" has been jailed for 18 months.
Jamil Hamza threatened the man with a telescopic cosh while a 17-year-old youth threw a hammer at the victim during the altercation in Hartington Mews.
Derby Crown Court was told that the victim, who was targeted in a case of mistaken identity, was left "frightened for his life" after the incident on July 2.
Sonal Ahya, prosecuting, said: "The man was shocked, shaken and concerned the group may return.
"He said he was frightened for his life."
Jailing Hamza, of St Chads Road, Derby, Judge Stuart Rafferty told him: "You may have a reputation as a hard man in the Normanton area, taking the law into your own hands and acting out petty vendettas, in this case on a wholly innocent man.
"But the community are utterly sick of this type of behaviour and should be allowed to live their lives free from this sort of oppression.
"It was an utterly disgraceful incident and it's a mercy that no-one was seriously injured. There is an anger in you that's graphically making you a very dangerous person."
Miss Ahya said the victim was called to his home when a friend telephoned him to say a man was peering through his window. He returned home and found Hamza sitting outside in a car.
Miss Ahya said: "The man approached the vehicle and Hamza reversed it before driving at the man, causing him to jump out of the way.
"A while later, a group were in the street, carrying weapons such as bricks, hammers and wood with nails attached.
"One of them threw a hammer at the man, which missed and hit a car belonging to a witness."
Hamza admitted affray, as did his teenage accomplice, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
The court was told that Hamza's offending dated back to 2006 and included battery, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and dishonesty charges. In 2012, he was jailed for 32 months for an assault.
"Steve Cobley, for Hamza, told the court: "He accepts this was disgraceful criminal behaviour."
Avik Mukherjee, for the teen, said his client also accepted that he had become involved in a "disgraceful incident of public disorder".
He was handed a youth rehabilitation order, a tagged curfew for three months and a five-year restraining order forbidding him to contact the victim.
Hamza was handed an indefinite restraining order against the same man.
