Young mum on electric motorbike was chased and killed by drug dealer, jury is told

PROSECUTION CLAIM MURDER ACCUSED DELIBERATELY RAMMED 4X4 INTO BIKE, KILLING PILLION PASSENGER AND SERIOUSLY INJURING RIDER

- By MARTIN NAYLOR [e-mail]

A 23-YEAR-OLD Nottinghamshire man left a motorcycle rider as an amputee and killed his pillion passenger when he chased them down a country lane and deliberately rammed into them, a murder trial has been told.

Mum-of-one Alana Armstrong, 25, was sent flying over the bonnet of the Land Rover Discovery driven by Keaton Muldoon while Jordan Newton-Kay was dragged under the wheel, a jury has heard.

Miss Armstrong, of Tibshelf, suffered catastrophic injuries and died at the scene, a narrow country lane, while her 22-year-old partner had to have most of his right leg surgically removed, prosecutors told Derby Crown Court.

Muldoon, of Mansfield, is on trial for the murder of Miss Armstong and wounding with intent of Mr Newton-Kay. He denies both charges but has admitted causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving in connection with the incident.

Prosecutor Sally Howes KC, opening the trial, said emergency services were called to Batley Lane, Pleasley, on the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire border, at around 8pm on Tuesday, November 26, last year. She said the two victims - who were partners - had been on an electric motorcycle which the prosecution say was “deliberately” rammed off the “narrow country road” by a Land Rover Discovery being driven by the defendant.