A TEENAGE girl screamed "no, daddy, no" as her thug father was led down to the cells to start a 12-month prison sentence.

Father-of-two Tudor Carrington, 53, was jailed for an "extreme, prolonged and violent attack" on a York shopkeeper.

Carrington, of Healey Grove, off Malton Road, beat Claude Wray with a pickaxe handle as the shopkeeper's terrified family looked on.

The entire ordeal, at Monkton Road Stores in Bell Farm, was captured on CCTV and a jury convicted Carrington of affray following a trial last month.

Sentencing Carrington at Leeds Crown Court, Judge Jim Spencer told him the general public would think the courts were simply not doing their job if he failed to send him to jail.

Two attackers laid siege to Mr Wray's grocery store on November 3, 2003. Mr Wray had to fend them off with a bread bin as his four-year-old son shouted: "Leave my daddy alone".

Video footage proved one of the thugs was Carrington - the other has never been traced.

After Carrington's trial, Mr Wray told the Evening Press he had pledged to stand up to the gangs of yobs that blight the area.

In mitigation, defence barrister Geraldine Kelly told the court Carrington was shy, lacking in self-esteem, and suffered anxiety and panic attacks - and those feelings bore themselves out in aggression.

She said he had brought up his two children "reasonably well", had stayed out of trouble for the last ten years, and had succeeded in overcoming a drug addiction.

But Judge Spencer said: "This was an extreme, prolonged and violent attack on Mr Wray's property. You played a willing part in that, and whether you were the main protagonist or not perhaps does not matter.

"It cannot be overlooked when a person is attacked in his own home over such a period of time. Otherwise the general public would think the courts were not doing their job."

Sitting in the public gallery, Carrington's daughter wept as Judge Spencer added: "I do bear in mind your age, medical condition and family circumstances - but a prison sentence is appropriate."

Updated: 09:53 Thursday, October 20, 2005