A MUM was killed when a 4×4 ploughed into her e-bike five times during a chase, a court heard.
Alana Armstrong, 25, was riding pillion on her boyfriend’s bike when Keaton Muldoon allegedly began tailing them for over a mile.
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The 23-year-old “deliberately” smashed into the pair five times in Pleasley, Derbyshire, before Alana was thrown off, jurors heard.
Derby Crown Court was told the mum-of-one died on a country road while her boyfriend Jordan Newton-Kay’s leg was amputated.
After fleeing the scene, Muldoon was heard moaning: “Oh s***. Oh for f**** sake. I was only meant to knock them off the bike.”
He has pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving but denies murder.
Jordan told police he, Alana and another rider were “pursued and chased” by a “large, dark, old-style Land Rover or Range Rover“.
The court heard he and the other rider had earlier seen the Land Rover parked up “in darkness” in a field before the crash so went to investigate.
They noticed two figures inside, before the vehicle, driven by Muldoon, “spun round” and “came straight at” them, it was said.
He said he saw his partner “roll over the whole car” as the vehicle’s bumper hit the back wheel of his bike.
Jordan, who was left under the car, claimed Muldoon “just ploughed us” and “left us for dead, did not even touch the brakes”.
Jurors were told Muldoon was a drug dealer who had met a woman in a pub car park before the crash to drop off 30 pounds of cocaine.
Prosecutor Sally Howes KC said Jordan’s right lower leg was amputated following the horror in November last year.
A post-mortem found extensive fractures to the rear of Alana’s ribcage causing bleeding “entirely consistent with heavy impact” that suggested she had been “dragged” along the road.
She added: “The catastrophic injuries sustained by Alana Armstrong as a result of this collision were unsurvivable and she was declared dead at the scene.”
Jurors heard the collision was a “deliberate, targeted running down” using a “highly powerful” vehicle as a weapon to knock them off.
Ms Howes added: “It is the Crown’s case this was the deliberate running down by a bigger, heavier vehicle, using it as a weapon, of two exposed, vulnerable young people on a motorcycle that is more of a toy than a road-worthy vehicle.
“This is not panic, this is pursuit. It was a brutal impact that left one person dead, and the other maimed.”
The trial, which is expected to last three weeks, continues.
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