Teen had laughing gas before driving over woman outside club, court told

A JURY trying a driver for allegedly running over and killing a woman outside a social club has watched “distressing” footage of the late-night collision.

- JASON EVANS Court and crime reporter

Kian Bateman is alleged to have deliberately driven over Shelley Davies as she lay in the road after she had became involved in a physical fight with the defendant's brother Kai.

Ms Davies suffered multiple injuries in the incident, including fractures to her vertebrae, ribs, arm and pelvis, along with internal injuries.

While in hospital, the 38-year-old suffered complications, contracted multiple infections, went into septic shock, and suffered irreversible and fatal organ failure.

David Bratcher, 40, who was Ms Davies’ partner, was also seriously injured but survived.

Bateman, 19, of Heol Muston, Ely, Cardiff, denies murder and is on trial at Cardiff Crown Court.

It is the prosecution case that at just after midnight on Saturday, September 27 last year, Bateman deliberately drove his mother’s Seat Ibiza car into Ms Davies and Mr Bratcher outside the Home Guard club in the Ely area of Cardiff “intending in this moment to either kill them or at least cause them really serious harm”.