Alleged killer and victims captured on film in Manchester before Wolverhampton shooting
Two men were fatally wounded while a third man was unhurt in the same volley of gun shots
The trial in the case of a double murder have been told that the alleged killer and the victims were captured on film in Manchester before a shooting in Wolverhampton.
Mohammed Maneer Khan, 39, who has links to the city and Walsall is accused of firing at Duaine Mills, Syed Zain Ali and Sahil Idrees as they sat in a car near Leicester Street, Whitmore Reans in the early hours of September 19 last year.
On Tuesday the jury heard that the parties involved had attended the garage music festival Steppers Assemble at the Progress Centre in Manchester on August 25, weeks before the fatal attack.
Images captured at the event appeared to show Mr Mills, aged 28, Syed Zain Ali, aged 32, Sahil Idrees and defendant Khan in posts on the Instagram account for the nightclub event.
Mohammed Maneer Khan, 39, also known as ‘Manny’ of St Catharine’s Close, Fullbrook, Walsall, is alleged to have shot Duaine Mills and Syed Zain Ali in the head as they tried to drive off in an Audi A4, seconds after the victims had “attacked” a parked Audi in Wolverhampton.
Mr Mills was pronounced dead at the scene while father-of-three Mr Ali was rushed to hospital with serious injuries, but succumbed. Both had been shot in the head. Mr Idrees, who was in the rear of the vehicle, survived the incident.
The prosecution alleges there had been an incident involving the people in Manchester the previous month during which a vehicle was damaged.
Khan, formerly of Great Hampton Street , Whitmore Reans, Khan denies two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.
Two other men are on trial accused of helping Khan obtain a false passport after the shooting, for which Khan has admitted a fraud offence.
Yaseen Patel, aged 35, of Bromford Way, Washwood Heath, Birmingham, and Samir Patel, aged 43, of St Catharine’s Close, Walsall, deny perverting the course of justice. The trial continues.