A police officer has denied being “mistaken” in his description of the moments earlier than he fatally shot a person throughout an enforced cease on a motorway slip street.
Yassar Yaqub, 28, was the front-seat passenger in one in all two automobiles travelling in convoy on the M62 when 4 unmarked police automobiles surrounded them at junction 24 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, on January 2 2017.
An inquest at Leeds Crown Court docket beforehand heard that an officer leaned out of his automobile window and fired three pictures at Mr Yaqub from 1.5 metres away, with two of the bullets hitting him within the chest and inflicting “catastrophic blood loss”.
The armed officer, generally known as V39 to guard his identification, instructed the listening to this week that, after the cease, Mr Yaqub ignored his command to “present me your fingers”, and as a substitute “crouched down” earlier than bringing a handgun over the automobile’s dashboard.
V39 mentioned that he had “feared for my life” and “had no different” however to shoot Mr Yaqub.
On Thursday V39 was cross examined by Michael Mansfield KC, representing Mr Yaqub’s household.
The jury was proven a photograph taken from contained in the Audi Mr Yaqub was in, with bullet holes within the entrance windscreen.
Mr Mansfield mentioned: “It’s fairly clear if somebody is bent down, crouches and leans in the direction of his proper if that’s what he did, he's going under the ‘mound’ on the dashboard.
“There’s fairly a bit of canopy there isn’t there?
“If he was in that place he wouldn’t have acquired the injuries he did, would he?
“Are you mistaken in any respect about your place and his?”
V39 replied: “No, sir.”
One other photograph confirmed a forensic officer sitting upright within the passenger seat of the Audi.
Mr Mansfield mentioned: “You'll be able to see the place the penetrative holes are imaged on this specific particular person’s clothes and the trajectory of his arms raised.”
V39 mentioned he “can't recollect it like that”.
Mr Mansfield requested: “He wasn’t crouched down if you fired your weapon, was he?”
V39 replied: “I feel he was, sir.”
He additionally denied that he had “made a mistake”.
Mr Mansfield mentioned: “Was he in an upright place in his seat when he acquired his accidents?”
V39 mentioned: “No, sir.”
The inquest has beforehand heard Mr Yaqub was described by police intelligence as a “extremely energetic felony” and Operation Fillview was arrange in October 2016 in response to intelligence exhibiting he and one other man had been “making threats” to a person known as Yasser Adalat.
V39 was the passenger in one of many 4 police automobiles that adopted Mr Yaqub and his associates from Akbar’s Cafe in Bradford on the M62 in the direction of Huddersfield earlier than stopping them on the junction generally known as Ainley High.
The inquest continues.