A MANHUNT came to an end last night as detectives arrested fugitive violent car-jacker Waqas Hussain during a planned operation.

The 20-year-old was found hiding at an address in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire Police revealed today.

He had gone on the run before being found guilty by a jury of a series of “terrifying” robberies.

He absconded alongside a 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, during the closing stages of their trial at Bradford Crown Court last week.

He was sentenced to 12 years in his absence after being found guilty on five counts of robbery and the possession of a firearm.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was locked up for six-and-a-half years in a young offender institute.

During the trial, the court heard details of the robberies, which were carried out between October and December last year and involved weapons such as machetes, swords, and baseball bats.

In one incident involving Hussain, Jeremy Robertshaw, 47, was dragged from his Volkswagen Golf outside his home in St Matthew’s Grove in Wilsden by a gang of men wielding machetes.

The court heard he had been tasered three times on his own driveway even after he had handed over the keys to the vehicle.

In another robbery, Hussain was one of two men who pointed a handgun through the window of Jayne Berry’s Volkswagen Polo as she sat with her baby outside a takeaway on Halifax Road, forcing them out of the vehicle before making off with it.

In other incidents, Hussain was part of a group who brandished three-foot long swords at Stephen York, while taking his Audi on Thornton Road, and one of two men who held machetes to Adam Forster’s face before taking his Volkswagen Golf and wallet in Listerhills.

In another robbery, Hussain, of Fearnsides Terrace, Girlington, was joined by the 15-year-old boy to rob Michael Stubley of his Volkswagen Golf on The Grove, Idle, together with a third man, who beat the victim around the legs with a pick axe.

The gang was also involved in other attacks in Keighley, Cross Hills and at Airedale Hospital in Steeton.

Judge Colin Burn has said that Hussain will receive a consecutive sentence to the 12-year term for absconding during the trial and breaching the conditions of his bail.