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CONCLUSION Mr Pitter said: "What we say in conclusion that we understand that the issues in the case may well be that: Hassan Jhangur's case will be that he did not deliberately

drive into that group of people, albeit his driving was plainly dangerous. "We will wait to see but it may be suggested that his actions in using the knife were lawful, notwithstanding

the extent of the violence, because he may have been acting to defend himself. We will wait to see what is said on behalf of his father if anything beyond what was asserted in interview.

"The Prosecution though submit that proper conclusions are: Hassan Jhangur’s driving to the scene and colliding with the group in the way he did was indicative of a man driving, perhaps

in angry partisan participation, to use his vehicle as a weapon, with little regard for who specifically was in that group around his sister. "Perhaps best demonstrated by him hitting

Riasat Khan in the road first. "Hassan Jhangur, the prosecution say, took the knife with which he stabbed Hasan Khan to the College Close the location of the incident. If that is right,

we conclude, that is important evidence in deciding that the only sensible reason for his having done so was in order to use it in an attack upon one of the Khan family. In all likelihood

this was Hasan Khan, given the Jhangur family’s displeasure about the marriage that morning between Hasan Khan and Amaani Jhangur. "Be that as it may, his subsequent deliberate use of

this knife to stab Hasan Khan multiple times in vital places in what we say are vital places, four times to the left-hand side of his head and two or three times to his back – is good

evidence from which you can sensibly conclude that his intention at the time was to kill Hasan Khan. "His use of the knife, and in the way he did, is also good evidence of his mindset

in attending the scene. "He was attending to deploy, the prosecution say, violence. That violence was in due course to be at the highest level of causing really serious or to kill. He

drove firstly at and hit Riasat Khan, and the vehicle subsequently hit that group of people on the street in the moments after. A group which, perhaps unbeknown to him, comprised his own

mother and sister, and two innocent members - not related to this at all - of the public who were simply trying to assist his sister. "A proper conclusion is that upon his arrival on

College Close or shortly thereafter, he had the intent at least of causing someone really serious harm, and that he was prepared to use his vehicle as a weapon in the process before using

the knife to attempt to kill. "Ultimately, you know that his actions had precisely those consequences. Hassan Jhangur did in fact kill one person and he made, we say, a serious attempt

to kill another. He also caused several other people what undoubtedly amounts to really serious harm. "But it is his intention at the time that he did so, whenever he initially formed

them, which is key to the issues in this case, and which you will have to determine on the basis of a close, careful and considered examination of the evidence that you are about to hear

over the next few weeks. "As regards to his father we ask quite simply, when Mohammed Jhangur took the weapon which Hassan Jhangur had wielded against Hasan Khan - for whatever reason -

and placed it out of sight in the boot of his locked car what else could he have really intended but to interfere with an investigation into his son’s use of that weapon? Why would he feel

the need to engage in that behaviour. We say he knew what his son had done, and he wanted to hide it."