Pc knocked to the ground ‘thought she would die’

A police officer has told a court she thought she was going to die after being knocked to the ground by a car as she attended an incident in Glasgow.

Pc Deborah Lawson said she believes she would not be here today if her colleague had not pulled her out of the path of the speeding vehicle.

Jurors heard how the constable was left in “agony” after the incident eight months ago – in which she suffered four fractures and a punctured lung – and she remains off work.

David Mclean, 31, and 25-year-old Ryan Gilmour are on trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, where they deny trying to kill two police officers. They are accused of the attempted murder of Pc Lawson and fellow constable Robert Fitzsimmons by striking them repeatedly with a car in Banner Drive on Sunday 23 October last year.mclean and Gilmour are alleged to have attempted to murder the two officers by reversing a Nissan car towards them and repeatedly hitting them with the vehicle “to the danger of their lives”.

The trial, before judge Lord Summers, continues.