Sickening excuses posted online as his victim lay dying
HIS behaviour in the aftermath of the crash was nothing short of callous.
After hitting Kim Briggs, cyclist Charlie Alliston shouted at her as she lay motionless. And while she was in hospital with fatal head injuries, he wrote online that she had ‘zero respect’ for bike riders.
Alliston, then 1 , said he was not at fault – and pinned the blame on her by falsely claiming she was looking at her phone.
He wrote: ‘Yes it is her fault … hopefully it is a lesson to be learned on her behalf. If you know the flame will hurt you, yet you still proceed to put your hand over it and get burnt, it’s your fault … If you value your phone more than your life, maybe this is the type of wake-up call you need.
‘I refuse to accept any responsibility in this whatsoever. It’s not my fault people either think they are invincible or have zero respect for cyclists.’
His fictional account of the incident appeared on the London Fixed Gear and Single Speed Forum, an internet discussion page for bike enthusiasts.
Alliston’s accusations also appeared on the Evening Standard website hours after the crash in February last year. Again, he refused to show any remorse.
‘In no way whatsoever was this my fault,’ he wrote. ‘I shouted to warn her to stop. She acknowledged my presence but proceeded into the road and looked back on to her phone.’
Two days later, he wrote on the forum: ‘F*** me and my health, I can heal and recover. The bike cannot! Thankfully I was going quite a slowish/moderate speed.’
In reality, Mrs Briggs was not on her phone – a fact Alliston admitted under cross-examination during his trial, some 1 months later. He conceded the first time he saw her phone was when it ‘clattered’ on to the road. It was one of many lies Alliston told police and the jury.
During his trial, he made much of his supposedly extensive experience as a cycle courier, claiming he regularly made 20 deliveries a day. But the Daily Mail has found he barely worked for the three firms he listed.
He said he first worked for Go Between Couriers, based in Clerkenwell, central London, but a senior manager at the firm said: ‘He worked for us for just one day and never turned up again.’
Alliston claimed to have worked extensively for A-Z Couriers, but a call to their London offices confirmed that he lasted only one week before leaving.
A senior source at Pink Express, where Alliston also claimed to have worked, said: ‘He just couldn’t have done so, because the firm did not exist when he says he was working for them.’