A police officer told a court that he spotted murder suspect Raees Khan driving a stolen Lexus two days after it had been taken.

PC Adrian Turner of Bradford Moor Police said he had chased the car less than a month after the death of Halifax dad Kevin Jackson.

PC Turner later picked out Khan from an identity parade at Halifax Police Station. He had pulled alongside Mr Khan in January in the Whetley Hill area following the theft of the car in Apperley Bridge.

Khan, 20, of Priestman Close, Manningham, denies robbing Warren Milburn of his Lexus car on January 25 this year.

He also denies assaulting Jude Hulston with intent to steal his Toyota Landcruiser.

He pleaded not guilty to the attempted burglary of a house in Woodside Drive, Keighley, on December 26 last year.

Khan, Rashad Zaman, 20, of Apsley Crescent, and Rangzaib Akhtar, 19, of Salt Street, also of Manningham, deny murdering Kevin Jackson, 31, on December 30.

PC Turner said the car had driven along a pavement to escape him, scraping against a number of garden walls before the driver lost control and went into a 360 degree spin.

The car then drove towards his stationary police car, missing him by a few yards. "I thought he was going to ram me," said PC Turner.

He attempted to follow the car but was unable to keep up.

PC Turner said he had no doubt in his mind that the driver was Khan.

He said he had looked directly at him for two seconds while the cars had been alongside each other.

But Michael Harrison, defending Khan, asked PC Turner why he had not reported that he had seen a murder suspect until over an hour later.

Mr Harrison said there was no record on the police radio log of the officer reporting that Khan was the driver.

"You must have known if you had communicated you had spotted a murder suspect. There would have been no hesitation by superior officers to flood the area with police and send out a force helicopter," said Mr Harrison.

"Had you really spotted a murder suspect your whole pattern of behaviour would be different, wouldn't it?"

"No," replied PC Turner.

Earlier in a statement read to the court, Nichola Milburn described how her husband's car had been stolen from their home on Stafford Way, Apperley Bridge.

She said she was in the kitchen of her home when she heard the engine of the Lexus revving in the driveway.

She ran outside and saw her husband wrestling with the driver of the car before it sped off without him.

The trial continues.