A man who was found guilty of murdering a woman stormed out of court as he heard the verdict. Stephen McHugh deliberately mounted the pavement and killed bystander Rebecca Steer outside a takeaway last October.
The man, who had taken cocaine and was boozed up after six beers and ten double shots of spirits, ploughed his Volvo on to a footpath in Oswestry, Shropshire, and crushed the 22-year-old underneath the vehicle as she died of "catastrophic" injuries, reports the Liverpool Echo.
A trial at Stafford Crown Court that lasted a fortnight found McHugh guilty of murder and trying to wound a male pedestrian who was also knocked down in the attack after he admitted manslaughter and assault. He claims he was attempting to frighten some pedestrians after an earlier altercation near the takeaway.
