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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Jon Harris & Thomas George

Dad couldn't handle youths playing a prank on him - his rage ended in near-tragedy

A vigilante mowed down an innocent university student in his Land Rover then left him for dead while hunting youths who played knock-and-run at his family home.

Oliver Donnellan, 47, left Christopher German with serious leg injuries after ploughing into the 20-year-old business management undergraduate as he sat on a park gate with friends.

The father-of-two had earlier flown into a rage after two teenagers he had a confrontation with a week earlier outside his £350,000 semi-detached property knocked at his door as a prank then ran off.

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