A violent alcoholic who was jailed for six years in 2014 for assaulting his sister has been jailed again - this time for attacking his mother and father, as well as hitting a stranger with the handle of a machete.

Shoayb Patel was handed 30 months in prison on Thursday (August 18) after Recorder Imran Shafi QC branded his behaviour “monstrous” and told him to take the help on offer for the “sake of your family”.

Patel, of Gloucester Road, Blackburn, appeared at Preston Crown Court charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and criminal damage, as well as two separate offences of possessing an offensive weapon in public and threatening a person with a weapon in a public place.

The weapons charges relate to an incident which took place in Blackburn at around 5am on November 28, 2020.

Prosecuting, Wayne Jackson said the victim was heading to the shop with his girlfriend when Patel came walking up to his car, mumbling something under his breath.

He told the court: “He grabbed the victim by the neck of his hoodie and pulled him towards him and then hit him with the handle of a machete and said, ‘I am going to stab you, I am going to stab you’.

“Fearing that he was in fact going to be stabbed, the victim tried to run away but the defendant caught up with him.

“He said, ‘What have I done, I don’t know you’, to which Patel replied, ‘I am going to stab you’.”

The victim managed to flee after a passer-by in a blue BMW helped him back to his car, before Patel, 30, left and discarded the machete nearby.

He was arrested on December 15. Mr Jackson continued: “Patel told police, ‘I am the victim, and I have been stabbed, I have injuries and stab wounds’, before showing police some stretch marks and old wounds.

“He was released on police bail pending further enquiries.”

Almost a year later, while still on bail for the weapons offences, Patel carried out an assault on his own father.

On the night of October 27 last year, Patel entered his father’s home and woke him from his sleep, demanding he hand over a mobile phone.

Mr Jackson said: “He grabbed his dad and punched him three times to the right side of his face and once to the left side of his face, while shouting ‘You have never loved me, you always loved your daughter’.

“Patel then tried to strangle his father with one hand before saying to him ‘I won’t leave you happy’, smashing his dad’s TV screen and leaving.

“His father was so terrified that he hid in his bedroom for several hours before he had the courage to go to his daughter’s house.

“Patel denied assaulting his father and told police, ‘I deny this, it simply never happened'.”

Defending, Neil Howard said his client was dependent on alcohol and suffered from many mental health issues including schizophrenia, anxiety, ADHD and panic attacks.

While committing the offences against his father he was under the influence of alcohol and struggled to explain why he acted as he did.

Mr Howard went on: “It’s a pattern of his offending as when he is sober and clear from the cloud of alcohol he is able to have insight into what he has done.

“He knows he has ruined his relationship with his father. Alcohol has blighted his life since he was a youth, and he says he can easily drink a bottle of whiskey and vodka in a day and will then supplement this with cocaine so he can carry on drinking.

“This has done his body damage and has had health repercussions for him – he would black out and lose days, having no idea what has happened in between.

“He was attending Inspire and has shown that he can abstain but he must make sure he stays away from alcohol.”

In May, Patel, who has 30 convictions for 46 offences, was jailed for 14 weeks for an assault on his partner outside Royal Blackburn Hospital that same month.

On Wednesday (August 17), Patel was jailed again at Blackburn Magistrates’ Court for 14 weeks for an assault on his mother which took place on November 25 last year.

He is also due back before magistrates next week for further offences.

Recorder Shafi QC said: “In the cold light of day without the fog of alcohol you realised just how disgraceful and disgusting that offence against your father was.

“You have a number of violent offences on your record and what is notable is that you were sentenced just yesterday to 14 weeks for assaulting your own mother and in 2014 you were convicted and jailed for six years for a section 18 assault on your sister.

“Assaulting your family is not unusual and it’s natural to you – you are a violent and aggressive man.

“I understand you are alcohol dependent and that’s why you behave in a monstrous fashion to your own family.

“I hope that you are successful with rehabilitation for the sake of your family.”

Patel was jailed for a further 30 months and was also made the subject of a restraining order against his father until further order.