Accused's 'disgust' at shooting

Hell's Angel Gerry Tobin was shot near Warwick last year

A biker accused of murdering a Hells Angel on the M40 motorway has told a jury he was "disgusted" by the killing.

Gerry Tobin, 35, of Mottingham, south-east London, was shot as he rode home from a festival near Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire in August 2007.

Dane Garside, 42, from Coventry, admits driving the car from which the lethal shot was fired but denies murder.

He told Birmingham Crown Court he had thought he only was taking part in a

surveillance exercise.

'Keep driving'

He said he was "in bits" when he heard a "bang bang" coming from inside the car.

The defendant, a member of the South Warwickshire chapter of the Outlaws biker group since 2006, told the jury he "did not expect anything like that to happen" and had been forced at gunpoint to carry on driving.

I am disgusted with what's happened but I cannot talk about it. I have got to put my family first Dane Garside

He told the jury how another man, 44-year-old Sean Creighton, also from Coventry, had wound down the window and shot Mr Tobin.

Mr Garside told the court: "I looked around and Sean was holding a gun."

But he refused to say who else had been in the car at the time.

"I am disgusted with what's happened but I cannot talk about it. I have got to put my family first," Mr Garside said.

Mr Tobin was shot in the neck on the motorway near Warwick as he rode at speeds of about 90mph (145kmh).

Mr Garside is on trial alongside his brother Karl Garside, 45, Dean Taylor, 47, Ian Cameron, 46 - all from Coventry - Simon Turner, 41, from Nuneaton and Malcolm Bull, 53, from Milton Keynes.

Creighton has pleaded guilty to murder and firearms charges.

The trial continues.