A CAB driver who fled the country after two men were brutally killed in his home was guilty of “calculated, cold-blooded murder,” a jury heard.

Mohammed Zubair flew to Pakistan to evade justice after dumping the bodies in a quiet lane as part of a clearly thought out plan, prosecutor Tahir Khan QC told Bradford Crown Court.

Zubair, 36, denies murdering his wife’s lover, Amhedin Khyel, and Mr Khyel’s friend, Imran Khan, in the living room of his house in Health Terrace, Barkerend, Bradford, on May 10, 2011.

Yesterday, Mr Khan said Zubair’s assertion that he was not in the room when the men were murdered in the family home was “unbelievable”.

Zubair has said he only wanted to talk to the men and found them beaten to death on the settee after escorting his wife and mother upstairs.

He told the jury he was devastated to learn of his wife’s affair with Mr Khyel, a London electrician, five days before the killings.

“I was highly distressed. It was like a bomb had dropped on me,” he stated.

Zubair said Mr Khyel, 35, threatened to knock down his wife, Kainaat Bibi, and throw acid in her face after she broke off with him.

On May 10, his mother rang him, saying: “There is somebody coming to talk to you. Son, come home quickly.”

She sounded worried and he suspected it might be Mr Khyel.

“I sensed danger. I sensed worry,” Zubair said.

He and his friend, fellow cab driver, Sabir Hussain, went to the house with a cousin.

Zubair alleges Mr Hussain attacked Mr Khyel with an object that could have been a hammer. He saw the blood and took his mother upstairs because he did not want her witnessing the violence.

He returned to the living room minutes later, with a dumb bell bar, to find both men dead.

“It was just a bloody scene. I had never seen anything like it,” he said.

Zubair has told the jury that when he saw the state of the two men he knew no one would believe him.

He wrapped one of the bodies in a sheet and the other in a rug before putting them in his Volkswagen Transporter cab.

He drove to Tong Lane, Bradford, to dump the bodies before catching a flight from Leeds Bradford Airport to Islamabad in Pakistan.

Cross-examined by Mr Khan, Zubair denied that he was “rallying the troops” when he asked Mr Hussain and one of his cousins to go to the house with him that evening.

“I am not of that violent nature to do anything like that, particularly in my own front room,” he replied.

Mr Khan said: “You planned to ambush these men when they got there.”

Zubair denied this, saying he just wanted to talk to them.

Mr Khan suggested he had “violence in his mind” when he picked up the dumb bell bar.

“The men were outnumbered so what was the need for a weapon that was capable of killing somebody?” he asked Zubair.

Zubair said it was a deterrent after his wife told him Mr Khyel was known to carry a knife.

He said he and his wife had since divorced.

The jury heard that Zubair rang a friend asking for money within minutes of the killings.

“You were thinking clearly on how to avoid being caught for the crimes that you had just committed,” Mr Khan stated.

He added: “This was a calculated, cold-blooded murder by you of these two men.”

Zubair agreed he fled the country to avoid being arrested by the police.

“I just thought ‘nobody is going to believe me’,” he told the jury.

The trial continues.

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