A former McDonald's manager told a jury how he only agreed to store a stash of drugs in his work locker after he was threatened at gunpoint by two men.

Arfan Naseer, 21, claimed that after accepting a lift home after work he was driven to a remote beauty spot late at night and told by the two men that they wanted him to do them a favour.

Naseer, who now works for the Halifax bank in Leeds, told a jury at Bradford Crown Court yesterday that the men said they wanted him to hold onto some drugs for them.

"I was worried and confused," he told Bradford Crown Court.

"I didn't know what to think or what to say. I did say I was not into that sort of thing.

"The driver turned round and said: 'We're not asking you, we're telling you'."

Naseer, who was a manager at the McDonald's restaurant in Ingleby Road, said it was then the driver took a black handgun from under his seat and clicked the weapon.

"The passenger said: 'Look outside. There's nothing and no one for miles.'

He just said: 'We could take you out there and have you done and no one would know about it'.

"I thought to myself they'd take me out there and either kill me or just leave me for dead.

"The driver said: 'You'd be done and then we'd go and do your mother.'

"I was scared . . . everything froze in my body. I couldn't move and I just thought about my mother."

Naseer said he was driven back to his home in Durham Road, Girlington, and a few days later the men, whom he refused to name, turned up again and handed him a bag containing three packages of heroin.

The drugs - almost three kilos with a street value of nearly £150,000 - were stored by Naseer in a staff locker at the McDonald's premises, but they were discovered last July by detectives carrying out a routine inquiry as part of the riots investigation.

Naseer has pleaded not guilty to a charge of possessing the Class A drug with intent to supply on the basis that he was acting under duress at the time.

But during cross-examination by prosecutor Philip Standfast, Naseer accepted he had lied to police when he told them in an interview that he found the drugs in a bush.

Naseer also confirmed that since he had been handed the drugs by the men he had heard nothing else from them.

He conceded that looking back he had chances to tell the police earlier what had happened to him or get advice about the situation he found himself in.

Mr Standfast pointed out that during his interviews Naseer was specifically asked if he had been put under pressure or "had a gun held to his head" and he said he hadn't.

The trial continues.