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Yorkshire Post

March 29, 2008

Different man 'said he killed taxi driver'

A MAN accused of murdering a taxi driver has told a jury that another man had admitted carrying out the killing.

At Sheffield Crown Court yest-erday Ashley Cohen, 25, denied involvement in the murder of Younis Khan, 53, who was shot dead as he drove along Scott Road, Pitsmoor, Sheffield, last March.

Cohen told the court the day after the murder another man, Barrington Broomfield, told him he had killed Mr Khan. However, he omitted to mention this to police when he was later arrested for the crime.

"He told me what had happened and he said that he had done it," Cohen said. "He's been to prison and in trouble with the law before.

"I was asking what's he done, what was the reason. I was upset and hysterical, to have someone in front of me telling me that. He had his head down and he was upset himself."

Cohen, of Clough Wood View, Oughtibridge, his brother David Cohen, 28, of Philadelphia Gardens, Upperthorpe, and Ramzan Mirza, 27, of Staniforth Road, Darnall, all deny murdering Mr Khan.

Ashley Cohen and David Ashmore, 45, of Dykewood Drive, Wadsley, deny perverting the course of justice by disposing of a Ford Escort which was allegedly used in the crime.

Yesterday, however, Cohen ad-mitted arranging for the Escort to be removed from where it had been burnt out on the street.

He said: "When I was talking to Barrington he told me about the car and where it was. I said, that's near my brother's house - the police will think it's something to do with us.

"I said why don't you move it and put it near your own house but he said he couldn't as it had been burnt out."

Cohen then said he asked Ashmore to arrange to have the car removed.

He claimed he had been at home on the night of the murder and denied knowing the victim.

The trial continues.
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