A JURY trying three men accused of murdering a father-of-two who interrupted a car theft, has found two of them guilty of trying to burgle a house intending to steal car keys four days earlier.
Rashad Zaman and Raees Khan were each found unanimously guilty by the jury at Leeds Crown Court yesterday of attempted burglary at a house in Woodside Drive, Cottingley, near Bingley, on December 26 last year with intent to steal the keys to an A
udi car.
The third defendant, Rangzaib Akhtar, has already pleaded guilty to the same attempted burglary.
Zaman, 21, Akhtar, 20, and Khan, 21, each deny the murder of Kevin Jackson, 31, of Lower Skircoat Green, Halifax.
The prosecution claim he was stabbed with a screwdriver on December 30 last year when he went to stop them stealing his father-in-law's Toyota RAV4 vehicle. He died two days later.
All three defendants have admitted trying to steal the RAV4.
Zaman, of Apsley Crescent, Manningham, Bradford, has already been found guilty by the jury on five charges of car theft in October and December last year.
Akhtar, of Salt Street, Manningham, denies one charge of car theft and one of robbery involving the taking of a car. He has admitted another charge of stealing a car.
Khan, of Priestman Close, Manningham, also denies robbery of the car in January. The jury will continue its deliberations today.
