Pair guilty of taxi passenger murder attempt

The man was shot and stabbed simultaneously while he sat in the back of a taxi on a street in Bradford

Two men have been found guilty of attempting to murder a taxi passenger who was shot in the face and "repeatedly" stabbed in Bradford.

Harris Mohammed, 24, and Riccardo Nadim, 20, approached the parked vehicle in a "pincer movement" on 9 March, Bradford Crown Court heard.

CCTV captured the pair shooting and stabbing the man, who was sat in the back of the car on Dovesdale Road, with the footage played to a jury last month.

Judge Jonathan Rose, Honorary Recorder of Bradford, told Mohammed, of Carr Bottom Avenue, Bradford, and Nadim, of Tarnside Drive, Leeds, to expect to receive significant sentences of imprisonment for offences of "the utmost gravity".

The court previously heard Mohammed shot the complainant while Nadim stabbed him from the other side of the vehicle.

Two shots were fired at the victim's face from close distance, the jury was told.

He was treated in hospital for injuries to his face, right arm and back, the court heard, and he later decided not to assist with the police investigation.

Both Mohammed and Nadim were also found guilty of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life.

A third man, Davian Lewis, 20, of Paley Road, Bradford, was cleared of the conspiracy charge but found guilty of assisting an offender.

A date for sentencing has not yet been fixed.

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