A teenage tearaway who mowed down the famous 'Litherland running man' in a stolen car lied to police about trying to brake moments before the fatal crash.
Lewis Wright, 17, lost control of the speeding Audi S8 as he attempted to drive the wrong way around the roundabout at the bottom of The Marian Way, Netherton, just after 9pm on April 13 2023. He crashed through a set of iron railings and ploughed into the 63-year-old runner, David Francis, crushing him between the car and the garden wall of a property on Morgan Mews.
He suffered multiple severe injuries and died at the scene.
