A TEENAGE gang laughed and boasted about a fatal attack on a taxi driver.

And Leeds Crown Court heard yesterday how the gang had tricked father of three Mohammed Parvaiz into Golcar to carry out the revenge attack.

The gang's alleged plot was outlined to the jury by a 17-year-old girl, who was with the youths on the night of the attack.

Samantha Sykes told how her friend was persuaded to call for a taxi - knowing that Mr Parvaiz would be behind the wheel.

And she said after the attack: "They kept boasting about it and laughing about it, like it was a joke".

A GOLCAR teenager told a jury how she heard her friends boasting about beating a taxi driver to death.

Samantha Sykes, 17, gave evidence at Leeds Crown Court yesterday in the trial of six Golcar teenagers accused of murdering Birkby taxi driver Mohammed Parvaiz on July 22.

Christopher Murphy, 18, Graeme Slavin, 18, Michael Hand, 19, two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old all deny the charge.

Mr Parvaiz, a 42-year-old father-of-three, was ambushed at Field Head in Golcar, thinking he was picking up a customer.

Miss Sykes and five friends had bumped into the six defendants at Cliff Ash Fisheries in Golcar at 8.30pm on the night of the attack.

She said Hand and Murphy went to the Co-op to buy beer and they all went to the recreation ground near Field Head.

She said the defendants talked about wanting revenge on Mr Parvaiz because weeks earlier he had taken a group of Asian youths in his taxi to Murphy's home in Golcar, where a row broke out and Murphy's scooter was damaged.

She said: "They were saying they wanted to get back and wanted that taxi driver. Murphy was saying he wanted to get revenge.

"I didn't think they were going to beat him and kill him. I just thought they were going to scare him, maybe smash a few windows."

She said her friend, Megan Walker, was pressured into calling Mr Parvaiz's taxi by all the boys – but particularly Murphy, Hand and Slavin.

She said: "They said they knew Lockwood Taxis only have one minibus and it was always the same driver that drives it.

"Murphy and Mikey (Hand) were pressuring Megan into ringing the taxi. They all started joining in, saying,'Ring it, ring it'."

At 11.20pm, Megan gave in and used Murphy's phone to call Lockwood Taxis and order a minibus for six people to Visage from Field Head surgery.

She was told the taxi would be 10 minutes and the six boys set off for Field Head.

Miss Sykes said she saw one of the 17-year-olds and Hand pick up bricks from a neglected wall.

She and her friends followed slowly along the path, looking after two dogs belonging to some of the boys. She said they turned back when they heard smashing sounds and a woman shouting that she had called the police.

She said the 16-year-old defendant ran off in one direction but the other five ran back past the girls. Miss Sykes and her friends followed them to The Wheel Inn at Golcar, where they bragged about the attack.

She said: "They kept boasting about it and laughing about it, like it was a joke."

Miss Sykes said Hand said he hit Mr Parvaiz twice round the head with a brick.

She said: "He said, ' If he's not in a coma, he's dead'. He seemed right happy with what he had done."

She said Murphy told them he had stamped on Mr Parvaiz's head and that "he deserved what he got". She said he asked Megan to shine her phone light onto his shoes and there was blood on them.

Miss Sykes said he also pulled out a watch and said: "Look what I have nicked off him".

Miss Sykes said Slavin was complaining that his knuckles hurt and she assumed it was because he had punched something.

She said: "He was just laughing about it as well, saying that it serves him right."

She said one of the 17-year-olds stayed quiet but the other 17-year-old laughed when he found blood on his shoes. He also told her not to inform on them.

She said: "He said to me, 'You had better not snitch'. I just ignored him.

"I felt a bit intimidated by him because he had been drinking and he said it with a nasty manner."

The trial continues.