A motorist told how he had to have his eye removed after a bullet smashed through his head during an ambush in Bradford.

Iqbal Singh, 27, told a jury how the bullet went through his temple, into his eye and out of his nose before it struck his front passenger Kamuljit Singh in the leg.

Giving evidence, he said he managed to drive to the city's Royal Infirmary after the incident last September.

But he told Bradford Crown Court that surgeons removed his right eye a week later.

Mr Singh described how he had been in his Toyota Carina with two of his friends when he was rammed off Leeds Road after a Peugeot stopped in front. The jury heard how he tried to reverse but a Rover car came up from behind.

Mr Singh told the court he then saw a man with a gun in his hand get out of one of the vehicles.

He said: "He cocked the gun. He pointed it straight towards me."

He said two other men were "egging him on to shoot".

"When he pointed the gun up towards me, I put my head down," he said. ""I heard the window smash and the bullet hit me as I was coming back up again."

After being knocked out for a few seconds, Mr Singh said someone punched him four or five times to the head.

"I started to drive," he said.

"I could not see properly at the beginning. I went forward and went straight into a lamp-post."

But Mr Singh said that when they reached the hospital no-one was following them. "I was in fear of my life. I thought they were going to kill me," he said.

Mohammed Bilal Sadiq, 21, of Upper Seymour Street, Bradford; Abdul Jabber Sadiq, 29, of the same address; Mohammed Zahid Rehman, 25, of St Paul's Road, Mann-ingham; Abdul Rehman, 22, of the same address; Mohammed Babur Yaqoob, 25, of Derby Road, Thornbury; Aleem Ghani, 24, of Killinghall Road, Undercliffe, and Toseef Ahmed Khan, 20, of Rochester Street, Bradford, all face two charges of attempted murder.

Sabir Khan, 30, of Warley Drive, Bradford, and Fazal Khan, 27, of Pearson Street, Laisterdyke, Bradford, are charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice along with Yaqoob and Ghani.

Mohammed Sadiq and Yaqoob are also accused of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life.

All the allegations are denied.

The trial continues.