A fugitive, alleged to have planned a robbery which led to the death of PC Sharon Beshenivsky, was driven to an airport by the brother of one of the accused.

Raza Ul-Haq Aslam told Newcastle Crown Court his brother had dropped off Piran Ditta Khan known as Uncle Pete at either Luton or Stansted Airport.

Aslam said he thought his brother had been asked by a relative who was a minicab driver and could not do it.

He said he did not think his brother told him where Uncle Pete was flying to and did not know whether it was out of the country.

Khan is one of two men still on the run alleged to have been involved conspiracy to rob the Universal Express travel agents in Bradford.

Aslam told the jury he had not wanted to talk to police on the record about "Uncle Pete" because he was scared what he would do to his family. He said he had met "Uncle Pete" but was not involved with him.

Cross-examined by prosecutor Robert Smith QC Aslam admitted he had not told police that he had met Muzzaker Shah at the London home of Mustaf Jamma three days before the robbery and guided him to the house in Harehills Lane, Leeds.

He said that when the six other men, alleged to have been involved in the robbery plot, had gathered at the house on November 18, he thought they had come for the party the night before.

Aslam admitted that he and Faisal Razzaq were in the Toyota Corolla every time it was seen on CCTV with the Rav 4 and Mercedes behind it going to Bradford and travelling back to Leeds on November 18.

He said no-one mentioned a robbery or shooting when they got back to the house and added: "I wasn't bothered what they had done, it was nothing to do with me."

Yusuf Abdillh Jamma, 20, of Small Heath, Birmingham, Raza Ul-Haq Aslam, 25, of Kentish Town, London, and brothers Faisal Razzaq, 25, and Hassan Razzaq, 26, both of Forest Gate, London, plead not guilty to PC Sharon Beshenivsky's murder.

Aslam and the Razzaq brothers deny robbery but Jamma has admitted that charge. Aslam, the Razzaq brothers and Jamma also plead not guilty to firearms offences though Jamma admits two charges of possessing a prohibited weapon.

Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah, 25, of London, admits murder, robbery, two charges of possessing a prohibited weapon and two charges of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life. He has been acquitted of the attempted murder of PC Teresa Milburn.

The trial continues.