A judge is expected to begin summing up next week in the trial of a man accused of trying to kill three people in Bradford last summer.

The jury at Bradford Crown Court yesterday heard closing speeches from the prosecution and defence on the fifth day of the trial.

Barry Phillips, 31, of The Hough, Northowram, Halifax, denies three charges of attempted murder, three of attempted wounding, and two of making threats to kill.

The prosecution alleged that he had fired a gun from the landing window in his former home in Buttershaw Drive, at a car containing Karen Coates, Patricia Coates, and Donald Trotter.

Phillips accepted that shots were fired from the house after he found a cartridge in a motor cycle helmet. But he claimed someone else in the house must have used a gun.

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