Father of murder-accused took knife ‘for safety reasons’

Jhangur’s father said he had driven to the scene after receiving a phone call telling him his daughter Nafeesa was not well.

“When I arrived it was just complete carnage, like a horror movie,” he told jurors.

“I saw my daughter Nafeesa under the car.”

Mr Jhangur said he initially thought his wife and daughter had died and then found his son Hassan Jhangur lying on the floor and bleeding from his head.

“I went to pick him up but then Hasan Khan swung his baseball bat at me,” he said.

“I just managed to duck in time.”

Mr Jhangur said he spotted a knife on the floor but denied saying “give me that knife, open your hand before anybody notices”.

“The reason I picked it up was the safety of people around me,” he said.

“If I didn’t pick the knife up, somebody else would have picked it up and used the knife again.”

Footage played on Monday, recorded Mr Jhangur telling police: “I don’t know who put the knife in there, mate, I don’t know, I don’t know anything about the knife”.

Asked if he accepted that was a lie, he said: “Maybe at that time it was not the truth.

“I was never in this situation before, I was not thinking right, I was not thinking straight, I had a lot of things on my mind.”

The trial continues.