A POLICE officer was alerted to a Bradford shooting when the victim was driven to hospital at speed in a blood-stained car with a smashed window, a jury was told.

Detective Constable Martyn Gilpin said he was at Bradford Royal Infirmary seeking treatment for a prisoner in his custody on August 15, 2017, when he saw a grey Seat Leon coming fast through the car park the wrong way round the one-way system.

DC Gilpin told a conspiracy to murder trial at Bradford Crown Court yesterday that the vehicle stopped by the entrance to the accident and emergency department and up to five Asian males got out.

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One was helped to the reception desk and DC Gilpin said he heard a nurse asking the injured man’s companion where the man had been shot.

DC Gilpin then went to look at the Seat Leon that had a shattered side window, blood on the door and blood-stained clothing on the back seat.

He spoke to the driver on the car park and obtained the vehicle keys.

DC Gilpin then alerted police control that the victim of a shooting had arrived at the hospital and stayed with the vehicle until uniformed officers attended at the scene.

CCTV footage played to the jury showed the shooting victim, Rohid Ali, arriving at the hospital. A second man injured in the incident, Zaka Ur-Rehman, who suffered grazing to his shoulder when the firearm was discharged, arrived at casualty later that evening for treatment.

It is alleged that Mr Ali was shot in the head in a retribution attack on Heaton Road, Manningham.

He sustained gunshot injuries to his skull and when a firearm was discharged shortly after 10.30pm.

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.

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 alleges that the four men all played a role in the arrangement and agreement for the shooting of Mr Ali to take place.

She says it was a retribution attack after Nawaz’s mother was injured in a collision with a stolen car driven by Mr Ali.

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 damage and threats.

Trial witness Katie Stanworth told the court she was driving home at around 10.30pm when she saw a car on fire near Salem Rugby Club.

“It seemed to be like a big orange light,” she said.

She did not know if anyone was in the vehicle and called 999.

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.

The trial continues.