Patel describes meeting ahead of Tesco incident
Mohammed Patel told police he received a call from Raees Jamal, asking him to go to Rekan Karwan's house, where he met Mahek Bukhari and her mother, Ansreen.
Patel said: "I said I'd be at his friend Rekan's house. From there, an Audi TT passed me and did a U-turn by Rekan's house. From there, there's a conversation between Rekan and Mahek Bukhari, the daughter of Mrs Bukhari.
"I don't really know Rekan, I don't know Mahek. There's a conversation about going towards Tesco and for me to come out of the car with Rekan." He said Raees Jamal was "dressed in black".
Patel describes his friend putting a weapon in his trousers
Outside Rekan's flat, Patel was given a wheel brace by Raees Jamal. He told the police: "He takes me to the back of the Audi TT and takes out the spare wheel tool and takes this tool out and puts it down between my trousers.
"He's got into his car to go towards Tesco, I think. We went to meet the two who have sadly passed away."
He said at that point he was in the Audi TT, next to Rekan Karwan, with Mahek's mum, Ansreen in the passenger seat and Mahek Bukhari driving. He said they went to Tesco to meet the two crash victims.
He said: "Raees Jamal has said we should go towards Tesco. We'll go there and meet there."
'We were just going to talk'
Describing what happened next, Patel told the police officers: "We're at Tesco. Mr Jamal [driving the Seat Leon] has picked somewhere else with the three occupants inside the Seat - AJ, Natasha and a third one I believe his name was Sanaf.
"Raees Jamal has parked somewhere else. We are waiting for the two people who passed away.
"There's a staircase there and we're stod waiting for these two individuals to approach the car.
"From what my understanding of the situation was, we were just going to talk."
Patel describes Skoda fleeing after seeing him and Karwan lying in wait
Next he described what happened when the Skoda Fabia arrived in the car park for the meeting. Patel said: "The Skoda has seen us two men stood at the stairwell, took off, quite quickly with the Seat Leon driving quite fast behind it."
He described the Audi TT, now being driven by Rekan Karwan, then following behind the other two cars and the route they took. He said: "From Tesco the two people that unfortunately passed away are now running away from the situation.
"I've no prior knowledge. They did start chasing the men - the Seat Leon was chasing the men. I've got back in the Audi TT with Mahek to the left of me and Rekan now driving, Mrs Bukhari in the passenger's seat.
"We're going towards the KFC roundabout, going straight over towards Thurmaston and towards Sainsbury's. We take a route towards the A46, past Costco and everything else."
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