E-bike murder trial driver 'was not acting like he had hit someone' after fatal crash

MAN DENIES MURDER BUT ADMITS CAUSING DEATH BY DANGEROUS DRIVING

- By MATTHEW COOPER

A DRIVER accused of murdering a young mother who was riding pillion on an off-road e-bike was "not acting like he had hit someone" immediately after the incident, his passenger has told a court.

Jordan Hind told jurors at Derby Crown Court that she did not hear anyone screaming or think there was anything underneath the Land Rover Discovery being driven by Keaton Muldoon.

Muldoon, 23, denies using the vehicle to murder 25-year-old Alana Armstrong but has admitted causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving. The defendant, of Tuckers Lane, Mansfield, further denies causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Ms Armstrong's boyfriend Jordan Newton-Kay, whose right leg was amputated 15cm above the knee after the crash in Pleasley.

The court heard that Mr Newton-Kay was riding his black, orange and blue off-road bike with Ms Armstrong on the back that evening, while a friend was on another similar bike.

Giving evidence from behind a curtain in the third week of Muldoon's trial, Miss Hind said she was the rear seat passenger at the time of the alleged murder in Batley Lane.