A security guard "did not have a chance" of surviving a well-organised ambush on the streets of Keighley, a Court heard.

A jury was told how Qadir Ahmed suffered 28 separate wounds from a number of weapons after his car was rammed off the road by a gang of waiting attackers.

On Monday, at Leeds Crown Court, the prosecution began summing up its case against seven men accused of conspiring to murder the 24-year-old.

Jennifer Kershaw QC said there was no doubt a conspiracy was formed, but added: "The issue which arises is who was a member of it. Was it all or any of these defendants?"

She said it was the Crown's case that every one of them, probably along with others, staged the ambush on February 13, last year.

"This plainly involved a significant level of organisation," said Mrs Kershaw, highlighting how the killers acquired weapons, vehicles and balaclavas before choosing the ideal time and place in which to strike.

A medical expert, Professor Chris Milroy, said Mr Ahmed, from Gordon Street, Keighley, was attacked with four types of weapon, including a knife, a baseball bat-type object and an axe -- the latter causing his fatal head wound.

Mrs Kershaw said one defendant, Amjad Ali Azam, bought a number of axes before the attack and an identical tool was later examined by Prof Milroy.

"He was satisfied an axe like that caused the injury which caused his death," said Mrs Kershaw.

She recounted how some of Mr Ahmed's attackers gathered in a car park at Keighley Leisure Centre -- "a very good place to wait in the dark for Qadir Ahmed to drive past" -- aware he would emerge from playing football at about 11pm.

At least two cars rammed Mr Ahmed's Rover before he leapt out and fled, only to be caught on the roundabout, the court heard.

One of the stab wounds inflicted there was so ferocious it penetrated his thigh bone, said Mrs Kershaw.

The defendants had earlier organised for another man, Jonathan Allen -- whom she described as a "bit of a mug" --- to buy seven balaclavas to hide their identities.

Speaking of the ambush, she said: "It was planned and thought about in advance.

"It actually worked rather well. Qadir Ahmed didn't stand a chance."

All the defendants deny conspiring to murder Mr Ahmed. They are: Zulfiqar Asif, 23, of Bradford Road, Keighley; Amjad Ali Azam, 21, of Surrey Street, Keighley; Mohammed Iqbal, 24, of Salt Street, Manningham, Bradford; Perveez Ashraf, 26, of Victoria Park View, Keighley; Zahir Bashir, 27, of Emily Street, Keighley; Mohammed Rafiq, 21, of Chatsworth Street, Keighley, and Atif Younis, 22, of Buxton Street, Keighley.

A defence barrister, speaking to the court on Tuesday, denounced the main prosecution witness as untrustworthy.

Alistair Webster QC was summing up the case for his client Zulfiqar Asif.

Asif was said to have been responsible for arranging the purchase of the weapons used in the attack, but Mr Webster said there was no firm evidence against his client.

He said the prosecution's main witness, Jonathan Allen, had contradicted himself in interview and mixed fact and fiction to bolster his evidence.

"How could you distinguish between one statement or the other?" he asked the jury.

Mr Webster told the jury that prosecutor Jennifer Kershaw's case had not proven that Asif was guilty.

"There is simply not enough evidence, in fact no good evidence, upon which you could convict Asif of conspiracy to murder," he said.

The trial continues.