Partner relives the horror of seeing Alana hit by 4x4 and 'left for dead' by 'drug dealer'

A MURDER trial witness has told a jury how mother-of-one Alana Armstrong was killed when a 4x4 came “flying at her” after her boyfriend stopped his motorbike to offer help to a vehicle which was parked in a field.

- By SOPHIE ROBINSON

Derby Crown Court heard that no words were exchanged between the driver of the Land Rover Discovery, alleged to be Keaton Muldoon, and two bike riders before the 25-year-old victim went “over the whole car” and was “left for dead”.

Ms Armstrong died at the scene in Batley Lane, Pleasley, after the 4x4 allegedly rammed into the back of an off-road electric bike being ridden by Jordan Newton-Kay while she was riding pillion on the evening of November 26 last year.

Muldoon, 23, of Mansfield, denies Ms Armstrong's murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to her boyfriend Jordan Newton-Kay, whose leg was amputated above the knee following the collision.

But the defendant, whom the court was told was a drug dealer, has already pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving before his trial began.

A recorded police interview with Mr Newton-Kay, who had been in a relationship with Ms Armstrong for four years before her death, was played to the jury.

He told detectives that Ms Armstrong, from Tibshelf, was on the back of the bike he was riding when the Land Rover Discovery “chased” the couple and his friend, James Gilbert, who was on a separate bike.