The court was told: 'We don't suggest that Rebecca Steer was his target. She was in effect, an innocent bystander, but there was somebody there that the defendant wanted to cause serious injury to.'
A 22-year-old woman killed when an Oswestry man used "his car as a weapon" to deliberately drive into a group of young people outside a takeaway was an "innocent bystander" a court was told.Stephen McHugh, 27, of Artillery Road, Park Hall, isProsecutor Kevin Hegarty said Miss Steer had not been McHugh's intended target.
"There was no time for anybody to escape from this. The people pressed themselves against the shop window, pushing each other, stumbling over each other in their panic to avoid being struck.The court was then showed CCTV of the incident where Miss Steer and Kyle Roberts were hit by the car. Mr Roberts was seriously injured but survived.
"He was wrong about that. But what it tells you is that when he saw people he thought had caused him trouble he got involved in violence," said Mr Hegarty.
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