An Aston Villa fan told a jury how a car narrowly missed him before it ran over and killed one of his son’s friends.
Danny Brown gave evidence at the murder trial of Lee Mockble at Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday. He told the jury that a Volkswagen Golf was heading directly for him but missed, instead killing 26-year-old Villa fan Christopher Priest as it crashed into him.
Mr Brown and Mr Priest had been part of a group of about ten people who were walking down Aston Hall Road after Villa beat Birmingham City 5-1 at Villa Park on April 20 last year.
The Golf, allegedly used as a murder weapon by Mockble, “shot off” down the road before the driver performed a rapid U-turn and drove deliberately at the group, the prosecution alleged. Mockble, 21, of Robin Hood Lane, Hall Green, denies murder and causing death by dangerous driving.
Giving evidence in court, Mr Brown said: “The car was going too quick. When I saw the car come towards us I was in fear that it wasn’t going to stop. I was on my back foot and couldn’t move out of the way. It missed my right shoulder and then I knew it had hit somebody behind me and somebody had gone down.”
The court heard that minutes before the Golf hit Mr Priest, it had had its window smashed by a pint glass that Mr Brown’s son, Daniel, had thrown as he walked out of the New Aston Social Club.
