Driver is run down by thieves in his own car
A CAR owner was yesterday fighting for his life after being struck by his own vehicle after he tried to stop thieves driving it off.
The 63-year-old was left with serious head injuries after he was hit by his Citroen C1 as it was driven off outside his home in Ashford-underLyne, Greater Manchester, an area that has been described by a neighbour as a “Mecca for stealing”.
The theft happened in a cul-desac but the victim was hit near a mini roundabout in an adjacent street reached by a footpath at about 7.20am on Friday.
Neighbour, Kenneth Cooper, 66, a retired soldier, said: “I saw the car going down the road and it was not going at breakneck speed or anything.
“I thought it was him [the car owner] going to work, he normally did at that time.
“He’s run down the alleyway at the bottom while the car’s going around the corner.”
Many roads were sealed off by police for several hours as forensics officers searched for evidence.
Police asked residents in streets for CCTV.
Mr Cooper said: “He’s a pretty quiet bloke and doesn’t deserve what’s happened to him.
“This area is a Mecca for stealing. It’s not unusual at all.
“I’m sick to death of my car being surrounding A TEENAGER stabbed outside his sixth form college has now died.
The 16-year-old student suffered a serious stab wound to his chest on Wednesday and had been in a coma since the attack outside Joseph
Chamberlain College in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.
A 16-year-old boy was charged with attempted murder on Friday.
Chief Superintendent Kenny Bell, of West Midlands Police, said: “This is a tragic outcome and a dreadful loss of another young life to knife crime.”
broken into if I ever leave it open because thieves try your car doors.”
Police said the suspects fled on foot after the collision and the car was later discovered about a mile away.
Detective Inspector Benjamin Cottam, of Greater Manchester Police, said: “The man remains in a critical condition in hospital, and my thoughts are with him and his family at this truly awful time.
“This investigation is very much ongoing and I would urge anyone with information to please come forward writes Jon Coates.
The words “doctrine of hate” and “architect of genocide” were daubed in red on the grave of the most famous resident of
Highgate Cemetery in north London.
It follows a hammer attack on the monument two weeks ago.
British Museum spokesman Maxwell Blowfield, 31, said he was “quite shocked” to see the vandalism yesterday morning.
He said of the monument: “It’s a highlight of the cemetery. It’s a shame.
“The red paint will disappear, but to see that level of damage happen twice, it’s not good. I am just surprised that in 2019 somebody feels they need to do something like that.”
The Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust had described the February 4 hammer attack on the Grade I-listed memorial as “very upsetting”.
No arrests have been made. A MAN accused of murdering three men aged in their 80s has been remanded in custody.
Alexander LewisRanwell, 27, a polo-playing former public school boy of no fixed abode, appeared at Exeter Magistrates’ Court yesterday and did not enter a plea.
The charges follow the discovery of three bodies in two separate houses in the city last week.
Mr Lewis-Ranwell is also accused of two offences of causing grievous bodily harm with intent earlier this month.
to police so already.
“I’d like to appeal to anyone who saw the red Citroen C1 in the area at the time, or anyone with dashcam footage, to please get in touch with us as soon as you possibly can.”
Detectives later arrested a 46-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder and a 45-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Both were in custody last night as the victim remained in hospital in a critical condition.
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