A MAN on trial for murder after he drove into the back of a quad bike killing its teenage passenger told the jury he felt sadness, regret and guilt but never intended to kill or seriously harm anyone.

Jordan Glover said he thought about the collision that killed 18-year-old Rahees Mahmood every day.

Giving evidence at Bradford Crown Court, he said he had pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.

He accepted ‘100 per cent’ that his driving that day was dangerous but maintained that he did not intend to kill or seriously injure Mr Mahmood or the quad bike’s rider, Tommy-Lee Haigh.

Glover, 24, from the Thorpe Edge area of Bradford, pleads not guilty to murder; manslaughter as an alternative count; causing grievous bodily harm with intent; and criminal damage.

He told the jury he was never a member of a gang on the Holme Wood estate but had associates who were.

About two years’ ago, he and his girlfriend had been threatened by up to 12 males armed with machetes. He had since moved away from the Holme Wood area because he did not want any involvement with what was going on there.

Glover said that on the afternoon of Thursday, June 3, last year he was a passenger in a Nissan Terrano when Frankie Simpson, the driver, suddenly reversed into a car.

“It was pointless; there was no reason to do that. He was laughing, he was just laughing,” he told the court.

Shortly before 4pm, Glover got into his Ford Focus and drove up and down Broadstone Way because Simpson wanted to see the damage he had done to the car.

Six minutes later, Glover said he was parked up at a relative’s house when the red quad bike appeared in the company of a moped.

The people on the quad bike had a garden fork and a machete and that made him scared.  He chased them in the Focus on to Broadstone Way to ‘get them away’ past the park.

He speeded up to avoid hitting an oncoming car and his attention was on vehicles behind him. He was looking for the moped because he knew the people on it were armed.

After the collision with the quad bike, he froze and panicked.

“I didn’t want to see what I’d done. I was too scared to see,” he said.

He thought he had hurt someone very seriously and it wasn’t a nice feeling.

“I think about it every day,” he told the jury. “I feel sad, regret and guilt.”

Mr Mahmood died at the scene from catastrophic head injuries when the quad bike crashed into a wall shortly after 4pm. Mr Haigh, 19, was hospitalised with multiple fractures.

Jason Pitter QC, for the Crown, alleges that Glover was ‘in hot pursuit’ of the bike and deliberately drove it off the road.

The trial continues.