A convicted drug-dealer has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 18 years for murdering a woman by deliberately driving into a crowd of pedestrians.
Stephen McHugh, 28, swore at the jury after he was convicted of the murder yesterday. The jurors had heard how McHugh killed Rebecca Steer after he mounted the pavement outside a takeaway in Oswestry, Shropshire, having downed six beers, 10 double shots of spirit, and snorted seven lines of cocaine.
McHugh, originally from Fazakerley, Liverpool, had reacted to verbal abuse directed at his erratic driving by treating pedestrians “like they were human skittles," judge Mr Justice Andrew Baker said today.
