Four people charged in connection with a shooting in Wakefield will stand trial next year.

The four appeared at Leeds Crown Court via video link from prison for a short trial preparation hearing.

Their arrests came after a gun was fired towards a house on the Lupset estate in August.

Billy Michael Bedford, 20, of Cedar Road Chickenley, Dewsbury; Samuel Andrew Clegg, 23, of Edge Avenue, Thornhill; Anthony Richard Smithey, 27, of Cedar Drive, Chickenley and Dawson Wood, 19, of Gloucester Road, Wakefield, have all be charged with conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life.

Smithey and Clegg appeared over the link from HMP Leeds, with Bedford and Wood appearing from HMP Doncaster.

The case has been listed for a trial which is due to begin on March 1, 2021.

All four men will continue to be held on remand.

Trial date set for Dewsbury men charged over Wakefield estate shooting