A MAN was shot in the head in a retribution attack on the streets of Bradford, a jury heard today.

Rohid Ali sustained gunshot injuries to his skull and Zaka Ur-Rehman suffered grazing to his shoulder when a firearm was discharged in Heaton Road, Manningham, shortly after 10.30pm on August 15, 2017.

Four men are on trial at Bradford Crown Court accused of conspiracy to murder Mr Ali following the drive-by shooting from a Honda Civic said to have been found burnt out minutes later near Salem Rugby Club.

Usman Nawaz, 24, formerly of Oak Lane, Manningham, Bradford, now at an address in Blackburn; Mohammed Yasin, 25, of Braithwaite Avenue, Keighley; Hasanain Murtaza, 23, of Highfield Drive, Heaton, Bradford; and Sakib Ditta, 24, of Greystones Drive, Keighley, all plead not guilty to the charge.

Prosecutor Kama Melly QC said the police were informed that a shot had been fired and a detective saw a grey Seat Leon drive at speed through the car park at Bradford Royal Infirmary and a male being helped into the hospital.

It was Rohid Ali and he was obviously bleeding. There was blood on the car door and on clothing on the back seat and a window was shattered.

Ali, 25, was transferred to Leeds General Infirmary where he was admitted to intensive care. Multiple gunshot pellets were removed from his head, along with a blood clot. Later, Mr Ur-Rehman also sought treatment for his injury.

Miss Melly said that although the Honda Civic was badly damaged when it was set on fire, a latex glove recovered from it had a DNA link to Yasin.

She said that two weeks before the shooting, a Ford Fiesta was taken in a burglary at a house in Bradford.

On July 31, the police chased the stolen car and it crashed into a vehicle containing Nawaz’s mother and sister, who were left distressed and requiring medical treatment.

On August 2, Rohid Ali was arrested and accused of driving the stolen car.

“So the man that ends up seriously injured by gunshot is the one that the police arrested for driving into Mr Nawaz’s family,” Miss Melly said.

Two days before the shooting, Nawaz’s Ford Focus was damaged by bricks and sticks and its windows smashed, the jury heard.

That evening, Nawaz’s sister informed the police that her brother had received a phoned death threat in which he was told he needed to have a gun or a knife ready.

Miss Melly alleged that Nawaz decided to take the law into his own hands, along with his associates, because they could no longer put up with the damage and threats.

“It is the Crown’s case that Nawaz and the other defendants planned retribution on Rohid Ali. They made arrangements to obtain a firearm and a vehicle from which to shoot,” she said.

The defendant Hasanain Murtaza was not in court when the case was opened. The jury was told that he was in hospital with a “perfectly genuine medical problem” and would attend the trial in a day or two.

The trial continues.