The son of a religious teacher was wanted by the police at the time he was accused of gunning down a man for showing him disrespect, a jury heard.

Amjad Khan admitted in Court that there was a warrant out for his arrest at the time he is accused of attempted murder.

Khan, 20, of New Cross Street, West Bowling, was giving evidence in his trial at Leeds Crown Court yesterday.

He denies attempting to murder Asif Khan, 27, on July 17 last year.

Asif, a window installer of Parkside Road, West Bowling, had surgery at Bradford Royal Infirmary to remove 15 shotgun pellets from his right arm, back and buttocks.

The window installer has told the jury he recognised Amjad Khan, nicknamed Bujo, as the gunman.

Unemployed Amjad also denies the alternative charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Mr Khan, and two firearms offences. Amjad Khan, whose father teaches at the Madni Masjid Mosque in West Bowling, Bradford, told the court he had never owned a gun.

He says he was asleep in a house in Lindley Road, Little Horton, Bradford, when Asif Khan was blasted by a sawn-off shotgun in a dark alleyway opposite his home.

Cross-examined by prosecuting barrister Jonathan Rose, Amjad Khan agreed that he disliked Asif and his 'flashy' BMWs.

Mr Rose told him: "There's a running argument between you and a mutual dislike that culminated in you deciding to teach him a lesson."

Mr Rose alleges that Khan attacked Asif because he showed him disrespect during a road rage incident a couple of weeks earlier.

Mr Rose added: "You fired a sawn-off shotgun from the hip because you intended to kill him." Khan denied the allegation. He conceded that there was a warrant for his arrest at the time when Mr Khan was shot.

He was wanted for motoring offences and had convictions for driving while disqualified and obstructing the police.

Amjad Khan told the jury that his parents had not approved of the life he was leading at the time of the shooting and he had spent most of his days away from home.

Much of his time was spent in the Game On Snooker Club in Gaythorne Road, smoking cannabis, listening to music and all-night clubbing in Sheffield. He agreed that his respectable parents were horrified when police raided the family home searching for him after the shooting.

Khan told how he gave himself up to the police for questioning on July 25 and made a statement the next day in which he said he was a mile away from the shooting in bed asleep.

The jury is expected to be sent out to consider its verdict on Monday.