A drugged up and drunk driver pushed a pensioner to the ground in Chilwell, fatally injuring him as his head hit the tarmac, after the innocent victim had gone out for a coffee. James Gill, who was on bail for violence in Sheffield, encountered 75-year-old Neil Robinson, a complete stranger, as he crossed Ranson Road, Chilwell, at midday on Thursday, December 16, 2021.
Gill was a motorist driving his car as if "purposefully" swerving in the direction of Mr Robinson, who had been walking around the back of a parked double-decker bus. "He only just managed to jump back and avoid being hit by the defendant's car," explained Sarah Knight, prosecuting, on Friday.
Mr Robinson was crossing from behind a bus, Nottingham Crown Court heard, when Robinson called him **** and, "what are you doing walking on the road side of the road?" after getting out of his car. The bus driver saw frail and sober Mr Robinson falling backwards and formed the firm impression the pensioner had been pushed by the defendant.
