Dad-of-two, 28, was fatally shot by police after M62 chase

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

An inquest has heard details of the death of Yassar Yaqub who was shot by police on the M62. Yassar, 28, was a passenger in an Audi intercepted by officers on a slip road off the M62 at Ainley Top, West Yorkshire in January 2017.

The man driving the Audi, Moshi Amin, was jailed for 18 years in 2018 for conspiracy to possess firearms and ammunition on the day Yassar died.

An earlier hearing heard that while Amin obeyed police instructions, dad-of-two Yassar had crouched down and as he brought his hands back up the officer was "under no doubt he was holding a handgun" - his father, Mohammed Yaqub of Crossland Moor insists his son was innocent.

An inquest was previously supposed to be held in January 2021 but it was delayed until this month, YorkshireLive reports. Read more: Killer who won't say what he did with wife's body will face UK's first ever public parole hearing Recorder of Leeds, Judge Guy Kearl QC sat as a coroner for the inquest at Leeds Crown Court.