A Bradford businessman has told how he tackled a pair of armed robbers, chasing them out of his shop and smashing a window of their getaway car.

Nahim Hussain hit back when the raiders - one brandishing a pistol - burst into his Leeds Road firm Computerlink.

The father-of-two revealed it was the third time he had been targeted by robbers in recent years. On the last occasion they hit him in the face with a gun and grabbed £10,000 of mobile phones and electrical equipment.

"This time, the man with the gun said 'This is an armed raid - we've come to get the phones'," said Mr Hussain, 39.

"I told them I did not keep them in the shop any more because they were too much of a risk. They started pushing me about and threatening me. I just pushed the guy with the gun back. I was shocked but I wouldn't say I was scared - I didn't have time to think."

During the struggle, he managed to open a door and shout to his friend in the flat above the shop.

"I told him to call the police and when I turned back, one of the men had a customer's lap-top computer in his hands so I grabbed it off him. Then I spotted the pole which I use to pull the shop shutters, picked it up and went after them."

The men - described as Afro-Caribbean and of stocky build - fled, closely followed by Mr Hussain.

Thinking he was a raider, Mr Hussain struck a man outside - only to discover he was an innocent bystander.

"I apologised and then went looking for them. Around the corner, in Edderthorpe Street, I saw one of them in a car. I smashed the passenger window with the pole and ran back to the shop to make sure the police were coming."

He said a motorist spotted the commotion and followed the car to the West Bowling area where police later found it abandoned in Elwyn Grove.

Detective Inspector Rob Sumner, of Bradford South Police, said the getaway car - registration J346 HRN - had been seen previously in Bradford and could hold the key to the inquiry.

"We would like to hear from anyone who may have noticed it parked up somewhere or who may have spotted anything suspicious," he said.

Mr Hussain said he had been attacked by robbers in his home and then at his previous store in Duckworth Lane two years ago.

"After it happened on Monday, my first feeling was to give it all up. But then I sat down and thought 'I really enjoy what I am doing and this is my livelihood - why should I give it up for them'."

Anyone with information on Monday's incident at 10.50am should contact Bradford South CID on (01274) 376459.