NO SHRED OF HUMANITY

JUDGE'S FURY AT COUPLE WHO LIED & DECEIVED IN 'APPALLING PANTOMIME' AFTER HUSBAND'S 120MPH DRIVING KILLED YOUNG MOTORCYCLIST

- By ADAM EVERETT

A HUSBAND and wife hatched a grotesque cover-up after he killed a man - but were exposed by his trips to Aldi, Dublin and Reminisce Festival.

Steven Naylor reached speeds of up to 120mph as he drunkenly drove down the M62 in his Audi after his partner's birthday party.

The dad-of-four then ploughed into the back of a motorbike being ridden by 23-year-old Owen Baugh, who was knocked into the carriageway and fatally hit by another vehicle. While the killer himself was left seriously injured, having been impaled by a wooden fence when his car veered off the road, both he and his wife, Lisa, then set about weaving a web of lies to avoid the consequences of his mindless and selfish actions.

The couple vastly exaggerated the extent of the difficulties he had been left with as a result of the collision, thereby hoping that he would avoid justice. But, despite having claimed that he could barely walk, their cruel deceit was exposed by pictures and videos of him playing rugby, kayaking and going on boating trips, holidaying abroad and shopping at the supermarket.

Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday that the Naylors held a belated birthday party for Lisa at their home address on Spinney Close in St Helens on the evening of April 24, 2021. After members of their family had left, she recalled having gone to bed at around 11pm, leaving Steven downstairs.

While Lisa Naylor later noticed his phone on the bedside table, she subsequently woke up in the early hours to find that her 41-year-old husband had left the house. Nicola Daley, prosecuting, said: "For some unknown reason, after consuming alcohol during the course of the evening, Stephen Naylor chose to get into his car and ended up driving along the M62 motorway."