A TEENAGER accused of shooting a nightclub doorman has denied that he was at the scene when the gun was fired.

Raphael Hunte, 18, is accused of attempting to murder Nawaz Ahmed, who was shot in the hand in a fracas outside Gilly's nightclub on Salem Street, Bradford, last September.

When he was interviewed by police Hunte denied that he used the weapon.

The jury at Bradford Crown Court heard that Hunte told police he had gone to the Boiler House, another club in the city centre, when the doorman refused to let him and his friends into Gilly's because of the way they were dressed.

"I was going `That's not fair'," Hunte told the officers.

"It was like it was all because we were in a big group, they didn't want us to come in. They must have thought we would start trouble or something."

Hunte, of Couford Grove, Bradley, Huddersfield, denied that he had become angry and aggressive.

He told officers that some of his friends went home in a taxi and that he then went to meet his cousin in the Boiler House.

Hunte claims that he has never used a gun and has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.

The trial has heard that a scuffle broke out in the early hours of the morning involving a customer and two doormen when Mr Nawaz then heard one of his colleagues shouting "He's got a gun".

The gunman had produced the weapon and pointed it at another doorman's head before turning it on Mr Nawaz, who described to the jury how he had a lucky escape as the bullet lodged in his hand which he had put in front of his chest to protect himself.

He told the court how the gunman was only three or four feet away when he fired and said that the bullet had to be removed from his hand by a surgeon.

The trial continues.