A car repairer told a Court how he bought ski masks for a man accused of conspiring to murder a Keighley security guard.

Car body paneller Jonathan Allen told a jury at Leeds Crown Court yesterday that his former friend, defendant Zulfiqar Asif, had called into his workplace, Mojo's garage in Spear-head Way, Keighley, to ask his boss if he could take half an hour off to go into Keighley.

He said Asif arrived in a red Rover car with a passenger known as Nipper.

Prosecutor Jennifer Kershaw QC asked Mr Allen why he had been taken into Keighley.

"To get some ski masks," said Mr Allen. "Zulfi asked if he could borrow me for half an hour. Zulfi gave me some money and told me to go into a shop and get some ski masks."

He said they parked outside Speak's camping and outdoor pursuits shop in the town centre.

Asked by Ms Kershaw why Asif wanted the ski masks, Mr Allen said: "He said he was going off-roading. I thought he was going to go off-roading because he had some Land Rovers. He said get about six or seven.

"Zulfi gave me some money. I went into Speak's, bought some ski masks, came back out, gave Zulfi his change and a bag of ski masks."

Mr Allen also told the jury he knew people called Raf, Z, Taf and Gangee and had seen them all together at Mojo's garage.

While they were talking together in "their language", he repaired a silver Rover belonging to Nipper and Zulfi, from which the front end was hanging off.

"It looked like it was in a front-end bump," he said.

Asif, 23, of Bradford Road, Keighley, Amjad Ali Azam, 21, of Surrey Street, Keighley, Mohammed Iqbal, 24, of Salt Street, Manningham, Parveez Ashraf, 26, of Victoria Park View, Keighley, Zahid Bashir, 27, of Emley Street, Keighley, Mohammed Rafiq, 21, of Chatsworth Street, Keighley, and Atif Younis, 22, of Buxton Street, Keighley, all deny conspiring to murder 24-year-old Qadir Ahmed.

The trial continues.