MENACING vigilante Christopher Boulter viciously attacked a man with a baseball bat and "besieged" his home in a violent bid to "hound him off" an estate.
He tried to "lay down the law" and chillingly warned the terrified victim to get off the estate that night.
He "came back mob-handed" with other thugs and made "vile threats" after taking the law into his own hands, a court heard.
Boulter, 20, of Winthorpe Road, Nunsthorpe estate, Grimsby, admitted possessing a baseball bat as an offensive weapon, assaulting Hasan Yilmaz, threatening to damage property and using threatening words or behaviour on October 19.
Andrew Bailey, prosecuting, told Grimsby Crown Court that Mr Yilmaz bought a house on Winthorpe Road and employed youths, including Boulter and his cousin, to help with some work there.
An argument flared about payment and some missing tools. Boulter went round with a youth and told Mr Yilmaz: "You said you were going to pay me in November."
They crowded round him, "got right in his face" and Mr Yilmaz punched out in a pre-emptive strike, hitting the other youth by mistake.
Boulter told him: "You have just hit a kid. He's only 16." He warned him: "We are going to run you off the Nunny."
They later returned with another man, thought to be the boy's father, and Boulter was holding an aluminium baseball bat. He warned Mr Yilmaz: "You're going tonight."
Mr Yilmaz told him: "I'm not going." Boulter raised the bat and hit him with it four times.
He tried to hit the victim on the head but Mr Yilmaz blocked the blow with his arm. Boulter shouted: "You're leaving tonight."
A woman punched and kicked Mr Yilmaz and a group of other troublemakers entered his garden. Boulter was brandishing a metal bar.
The other youth and Boulter hurled bricks. The one thrown by Boulter hit Mr Yilmaz, who picked up concrete to defend himself.
The vigilantes kicked the door and Mr Yilmaz leaned against the door to stop them getting in. A metal bar was poked through the gaps and a window was smashed.
Boulter later told police community support officers: "He'd better not be there tonight or I'll make him move out. I swear if you bring him back here, I'll do him over."
He told his accomplices: "Make sure that house gets done because they are taking me in."
Mr Yilmaz had since left the area, said Mr Bailey.
Boulter was jailed for a year.
