A pub-goer froze as he heard the click of a gun while it was placed to his head, a Court heard.

Leslie Guest told a jury how he confronted an armed man in the road after a woman was shot in a Bradford pub.

He told Bradford Crown Court yesterday: "I told him to put the gun down and go one on one. He was walking away from me."

Mr Guest said he raised his voice and told the man: "Put the gun down. Me and you, one on one."

He added: "We were taunting each other. He was walking down the hill.

"I was walking after him. We came within a few yards of each other."

Mr Guest continued: "He said 'Do you want some?' and I said 'Yes'.

"He placed the gun to my temple. I just froze and heard a click.

"I reached out to grab hold of him and pulled him down. My right hand ended up grabbing the barrel of the gun."

Bradford Crown Court was told that after a struggle between the two men, Mr Guest walked away with the gun in his hand before it was handed to the police.

Mr Guest had earlier been in the Peel Park Hotel, in Otley Road, Bradford, when he saw a man raise his hand and appear to point a gun at a woman who had been hitting him with a handbag. He said: "There was a flash. It seemed like a party popper going off."

Mr Guest added: "The woman held her chest on her left hand side, saying 'He shot me'."

The jury was told that Deanna Contreras had been hit by a .22 bullet after a heated argument erupted into violence at the pub some 16 months ago.

The bullet embedded itself in a back muscle near her spine but doctors decided it was not appropriate to remove it.

Stephen Flaherty, 41, of no fixed address, has pleaded not guilty to two charges of attempting to murder Mrs Contreras and Mr Guest.

He has denied a charge of having a firearm with intent to commit murder.

Flaherty admits possessing a Derringer handgun with intent to cause a person to fear unlawful violence would be used against him.

In relation to a fifth allegation of possessing a firearm and ammunition in a public place, he has pleaded guilty to having the Derringer, but not the ammunition.

After his arrest, Flaherty told police he had taken the gun to frighten Mrs Contreras' boyfriend Tony Padgett, claiming that it had gone off accidentally in the pub.

The trial continues.

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