Blackburn Dad ‘Mown Down in Revenge’ dopo Headbutt in Pub il giorno di Natale

Could have been worse, he could have spent the whole of Christmas in Blackburn

Can’t believe this isn’t even related to the video from a few days ago of someone getting deliberately ran over in London

> Kirk Marsden, 37, was showing off a heavy gold bracelet in the Gate Street Bar and Grill when James Ward, 26, Thomas Ward, 58, and Michael O’Neill, 35, entered the bar, Preston Crown Court was told. .
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> Prosecutor William Baker KC told the jury O’Neill asked to see the jewellery, but Mr Marsden said he was ‘mad’.
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> O’Neill replied: “F***ing hell mate, I’m not going to rob your sh**y chain”, but a few minutes later a row broke out and Mr Marsden headbutted O’Neill, chipping his front tooth, the court heard.
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> As the disturbance continued, Mr Marsden wrestled with James Ward. O’Neill, Ward and Ward left the pub and got into a silver Toyota Landcruiser which was parked in Moorgate Street.
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> Mr Baker KC said the three men ‘could have gone straight home’ but O’Neill took a suspension rod from the boot and got into the driver’s seat, with James Ward in the passenger seat and Thomas Ward in the back.
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> Mr Baker KC told the jury: “They stayed to attack Kirk Marsden in revenge for the headbutt in the pub.”
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> As Mr Marsden left the pub, at 4.35pm, O’Neill drove the car towards him. “The car weighed 2125kg, over two tonnes,” Mr Baker KC said. “Michael O’Neill intended to put that car over Kirk Marsden and can only have intended to kill him or cause really serious harm.”
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> CCTV showed Mr Marsden jump out of way of the oncoming vehicle and return to the pub, where he took a pool cue from another customer. He struck the back window of the Toyota three times, smashing a quarterlight and snapping the pool cue in half, Mr Baker KC said.
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> As Mr Marsden ran back down Moorgate, O’Neill reversed back towards him and got out of the vehicle, with the metal suspension rod in his hand. Mr Marsden threw a wheelie bin towards him, as James Ward got into the driver’s seat and reversed towards Mr Marsden and his brother-in-law O’Neill.
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> “James Ward runs Kirk Marsden over with the driver’s front wheel. He puts the wheel that he is sitting behind over Kirk Marsden, pushing him along the road onto the pavement.”
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> As Mr Marsden lay seriously injured on the ground, James Ward collected Michael O’Neill. Thomas Ward remained in the back of the car, but encouraged the two younger men in a joint enterprise, the prosecution said.
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> The three men dropped the car off at a car park in Brindle Street, away from their usual parking space at Sunny Ray Park. O’Neill called his wife, who arrived in the couple’s other car to meet them at the junction of Moorgate.
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> O’Neill got into the driver’s side, with James Ward in the passenger seat and drove back past the scene of the incident. They saw Mr Marsden lying injured in the road but did not stop to check on him or call emergency services.
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> Mr Marsden suffered catastrophic injures, crushing his pelvis and causing extensive internal injuries. He was taken to Royal Preston Hospital but died from his injuries at 1pm on Boxing Day.
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> At 8pm on Christmas Day, police found Thomas Ward hiding under a pile of clothes in the attic of his home in New Wellington Street, Blackburn. On December 27, O’Neill handed himself into Greenbank Police Station,
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> On December 28, James Ward was taken to the same police station by two women. Two days later, he told officers: “I didn’t mean to do it. It was an accident.”
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> Mr Baker KC said: “It wasn’t a terrible accident – it was a terrible piece of deliberate driving intending to kill or cause really serious injury to Kirk Marsden.”
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> The jury was told O’Neill will claim he was acting in self-defence and James Ward will claim the collision was an accident. The prosecution intends to prove the three men acted together with an intention to kill or cause really serious harm to Mr Marsden.
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> All three deny murder and manslaughter.