Overview
- A jury was sworn at Bradford Crown Court and a 12-week trial has begun over a May 11, 2025, street attack that left two men badly injured.
- Prosecutors showed multi‑angle CCTV and described a convoy of three vehicles that trapped a Volkswagen Tiguan before attackers chased and struck the occupants with machete‑type blades.
- The lead victim, Mohammed Zayad Khan, suffered multiple wounds including the complete severing of his left hand and a partial amputation of his left leg while his nephew suffered slash wounds to the neck.
- Five men face charges of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm with intent and two people, including former PCSO Alice Dobson, are charged with perverting the course of justice by obtaining and passing on confidential police material.
- After the May 11 attack investigators found one vehicle abandoned and two later burned out, the weapons have not been recovered, the severed hand was recovered and re‑attached, and the trial will test the prosecution’s case over the coming weeks.