Which was the real Yassar .. dangerous gangster or loving, good son? AT LAST

neighbours on Rudding Street saw it. She has lived on the street for 18 years and said Yassar was well-known for his drug dealing and for “carrying a baseball bat in his car whenever he went out”.

She said the CCTV cameras which monitored activity at the family home were installed after the house was shot at, pointing out the spot where the bullets had been allegedly plastered over.

A Crosland Moor businesswoman described Yassar as “bad news” but he was clearly the apple of his father’s eye and his only son.

Mr Yaqub was asked about allegations that his son was a drug dealer and that “police clearly believed he was a risk to them”.

The grieving father replied: “I don’t think he was a risk at all.”

Asked what he thought had happened, he said that having looked at the photographs of the cars on the slip road that police had been out to get his son.

“I think that he was cornered, shot instantly without any warning,” he said.

“He had no convictions for firearms or drugs, only minor assault. I believe he was targeted, a preplanned assassination.”

Whatever the truth we may never know the real Yassar Yaqub but an investigation into his death should at least expose the circumstances over how and why he died. Only then will the family have some measure of closure.