A FATHER has told a jury how a car containing his five year-old son was shot at twice during a violent altercation in a quiet Bradford cul-de-sac.

A trial at Bradford Crown Court had heard evidence of a car crash and shots being fired on Hollybank Gardens in Great Horton on October 3 last year.

Prosecutor David Brooke has told the jury that a dispute between the leaders of two rival groups led to the confrontation, in which a shotgun was fired at a car and the alleged gunman attacked with a lump hammer and a knife.

Mohammed Waris, 22, of Northside Terrace, Lidget Green, Tariq Adalat, 35, of Northside Terrace, Lidget Green, and Dhaanish Akmal, 19, of Aberdeen Terrace, Lidget Green, each face three charges of conspiracy to have in their possession a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life, conspiracy to possess a firearm without a firearms certificate, and conspiracy to handle stolen goods.

Ajaz Saddiq, 38, of Hollybank Gardens, Great Horton, Shahid Saddiq, 35, of Waverley Road, Great Horton, and Nazim Hussain, 39, of Fairbank Road, Girlington, are charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding Waris with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.

The court heard yesterday that Ajaz Saddiq had told police he had been driving up Hollybank Gardens in his Audi when he saw a car, a Volkswagen Polo, coming in the opposite direction which Waris then got out of and fired two shots at his vehicle.

He said the car then “rammed” his, before he got out and became involved in a “scuffle” with Waris.

Rodney Ferm, for Waris, put it to Ajaz Saddiq that he had reversed his Audi to ram the Polo, but he responded: “That is an absolute fabrication of the truth. I didn’t drive into another vehicle deliberately, I wouldn’t put my son in that danger.”

Mr Ferm accused Ajaz Saddiq of lying about his son being in the car, saying that when asked by police who was in the vehicle, he answered: “Just myself.”

He told the jury: “I thought the police were asking about other adults. I was in shock at the time, it was a traumatic incident, I was having flashbacks. My life could have been taken, and the life of my son.”

Mr Ferm said a witness had seen two men, alleged to be Shahid Saddiq and Hussain, smash Waris’ car window and drag him from the car before he was attacked.

Asked about their role, Ajaz Saddiq said: “They helped to detain and restrain him until the police arrived. I didn’t see them kick or stamp on him.”

Asked if he had kicked or stamped on Waris, he said: “No, I didn’t. I had my foot on his chest and I was just keeping him down.”

He added: “He was desperate to get away. He didn’t want to be caught and be made accountable for what he had done. He had discharged a firearm at me and my son.”

The trial continues.

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