TWO brothers involved in a "drug related" neighbours' feud in which a man was attacked and then mown down by a car in Blackburn are both behind bars.

Amjad Khan, 36, and Sarfraz Khan, 26, had both been armed with metal bars, when they turned up outside Mohammed Ganchi's family home in Nottingham Street, determined to set about him.

The victim fled into the house and the brothers smashed a window and tried to kick down the front door to get in, Burnley Crown Court heard.

The hearing was told how Mr Ganchi's mother and sister, who was eight and a half months pregnant, were in the premises.

The defendants then gave the family the impression they had left and when Mr Ganchi eventually opened the door, he was assaulted.

Mr Ganchi's family intervened to try and protect him and the brothers went away.

The victim, who had lost his temper after the beating, then went with a hostile group of friends and relations to look for the Khans. A melee took place and was broken up by the police.

The court was told how Sarfraz Khan, picked up a weapon, but did not use it and Amjad Khan, afraid of the mob that had gathered, decided to flee.

He got in his car and when driving hit Mr Ganchi, who was thrown over the bonnet of the car. The victim's blood and fingerprints were later found on the bonnet.

Amjad Khan, of Dickens Street, and Sarfraz Khan, of St Thomas Street, both Blackburn, admitted affray and unlawful wounding, last November 14. Amjad Khan was jailed for two years whilst his brother was sent down for 18 months.

Sentencing, Recorder Raymond Herman told the pair there was plainly background to the case and the trouble was premeditated.

The judge said the incident at the Ganchi family home must have been terrifying not only for the victim, but for the occupants, including the two women.

Recorder Herman, who said he believed Amjad Khan's actions in knocking down Mr Ganchi were reckless rather than deliberate, told the defendants: “This is a very serious case and I would be failing in my public duty if I did not send you both to prison."

Nicholas Courtenay, prosecuting, told the court the crown accepted the background to the offences was drug related but how was by no means clear.