{"id":135814,"date":"2023-12-20T17:53:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T17:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=135814"},"modified":"2023-12-20T17:53:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T17:53:06","slug":"woman-deliberately-ran-over-and-killed-fiance-after-row-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/woman-deliberately-ran-over-and-killed-fiance-after-row-court-hears\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman &apos;deliberately&apos; ran over and killed fianc\u00e9 after row, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Woman &#8216;deliberately&#8217; ran over and murdered her fianc\u00e9 with &#8216;hostile&#8217; driving as she used her car as a &#8216;weapon&#8217; during a row after a party, court hears<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alice Wood, 23, is said to have used her car as a &#8216;weapon&#8217; to kill Ryan Watson, 24<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A woman &#8216;deliberately&#8217; ran over and murdered her fianc\u00e9 during a row after a party, a jury has been told.<\/p>\n<p>Alice Wood, 23, is said to have used her car as a &#8216;weapon&#8217; to mow down Ryan Watson after she &#8216;lost her temper&#8217; with him.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Watson, 24, died after being dragged under Wood&#8217;s Ford Fiesta for almost 160 metres as he was struck near the home the couple shared in Rode Heath, Cheshire, on May 6 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Wood claims the collision was a tragic accident after he &#8216;flipped&#8217; following a birthday party the couple attended in Stoke for a service user of the Headway brain injury charity where he worked as a support worker.<\/p>\n<p>But summing up the case, Mr Andrew Ford KC, prosecuting, told the jury that Wood&#8217;s claim was not supported by the evidence and they were &#8216;entitled&#8217; to view it as murder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/20\/15\/79174103-12885961-image-m-4_1703084826128.jpg\" height=\"953\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Alice Wood, 23, is said to have used her car as &#8216;weapon&#8217; to mow down her fianc\u00e9 after a party<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/20\/15\/79173981-12885961-image-m-2_1703084771724.jpg\" height=\"904\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Watson, 24, died after being dragged 160 metres down the road after being struck by a car driven by his partner<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ford described Wood&#8217;s driving as &#8216;hostile&#8217; and intended to cause serious harm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s certainly appropriate to strike one and the fatal strike because there was an interval of 3.7 seconds,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV footage previously played to the court showed Wood&#8217;s Fiesta swerving into Mr Watson sending him flying onto the bonnet.<\/p>\n<p>He managed to get to his feet but seconds later car was driven towards him a second time, causing him to fall under the front bumper, and he became trapped under the chassis as Wood drove for 158m before coming to a stop down the road.<\/p>\n<p>Wood claims she never saw Mr Wood before colliding with him the second time and Mr Ford told the jury that there was a disagreement between two collision experts over her perceived response time (PRT).<\/p>\n<p>One expert claimed Wood may have &#8216;took her eyes&#8217; off Mr Wood and there may have not been enough time for her to react.<\/p>\n<p>But the other expert said Mr Watson was not an &#8216;unexpected hazard&#8217; because Wood had driven at him the first time.<\/p>\n<p>And Mr Ford told the jury: &#8216;Even if she took her eyes off him after strike one it&#8217;s not as if he ran away or moved very far or vanished at six feet [tall].<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He popped up again and took a few paces to the left.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You are entitled to view that strike as deliberate.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He said Wood&#8217;s comments after the collision &#8216;called into question&#8217; her claim it was an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Wood claims that Mr Watson become angry with her after he accused her of &#8216;flirting&#8217; with men at the party.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Ford said the allegation of flirting being made by Mr Watson may have been &#8216;turned on its head&#8217; by Wood.<\/p>\n<p>Previously the jury heard how he had &#8216;clicked&#8217; with a female party guest, who had felt Wood &#8216;glaring&#8217; at her.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Watson had later tried to ring the woman just minutes before being struck by Wood&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the collision, during which Mr Watson can be heard screaming, was replayed to the jury and Mr Ford added: &#8216;You are entitled to view that as murder.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But Wood denies a charge of murder and separate charged of manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Gudrun Young KC, defending, told the jury that there were a &#8216;number of significant areas where things are not quite clear cut&#8217; or had been &#8216;twisted in a certain way&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>And there were also areas that &#8216;moved it away from an intentional act&#8217; on Wood&#8217;s part and the jury&#8217;s starting point should be that the collision was a &#8216;tragic accident&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The prosecution started with the thought that this was intentional,&#8217; Ms Young said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Thereafter, they went looking for everything to support that theory, cherry picking while ignoring anything that pointed in the other direction.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12885961\/Woman-deliberately-ran-murdered-fianc-hostile-driving-used-car-weapon-row-party-court-hears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman &#8216;deliberately&#8217; ran over and murdered her fianc\u00e9 with &#8216;hostile&#8217; driving as she used her car as a &#8216;weapon&#8217; during&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Woman &amp;apos;deliberately&amp;apos; 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