The car “ran right through” a group of people and killed one after the wedding brawl

An eyewitness said he saw a car “speed up” before plowing into a group of people outside his home, leaving one man dead and five seriously injured.

James Hammond gave evidence at the trial of Hassan Jhangur, who denies murdering father-of-two Chris Marriott, 46, in the Burngreave area of ​​Sheffield in December. Mr Hammond told Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday how he was looking out his bedroom window when he saw Mr Marriott helping a young woman.

The jury was told the woman was knocked unconscious during an altercation between two families involved in a wedding feud. Mr Hammond told a jury how he then heard “an engine revving and the car accelerating”.

Mr Hammond, who lives at the junction of College Close and College Court, said the speed of the car was “inappropriate” and he believed it had been “used as a weapon”. The witness said: “I saw the car on the wrong side of the road going into College Court and it aimed for Chris and the young lady.”

He said he saw the car hit Mr Marriott, the young woman and a midwife who had also come to help, saying: “It went straight through them.” Mr Hammond said the car stopped in his garden outside his front door.​​ He explained how he was first alerted that day by people shouting outside and how he looked out the window to see an altercation between some members of the Khan. the family, who lived across the street, and others he didn’t know.

Asked if he saw what caused the young woman to fall to the floor, he told the jury: “I think being hit repeatedly while pulling your hair out would lead to those injuries.” He said: “When I looked out again that’s when I saw Chris tending to the young lady. It came out of nowhere.”

Prosecutors described how Jhangur, 24, drove a Seat Ibiza into a group of people on December 27 last year, leaving Mr Marriott dead and others injured. Then he went out and stabbed the groom who that morning was married to Jhangur’s sister.

The jury heard how Mr Marriott was out for a Christmas walk with his family when he spotted a young woman on the floor and went to help with an off-duty midwife, Alison Norris. The injured young woman was Nafeesa Jhangur – the accused’s sister.

The court was told the car first hit a man called Riasat Khan, who was sent “spinning” over the hood, before plowing into Mr Marriott, Ms Norris, Ms Jhangur and her mother, Ambreen. The jury was told that the background to the incident was a dispute between the Khan family and the Jhangur family, following a wedding that morning between Hasan Khan and the defendant’s sister, Amaani Jhangur.

Jhangur, of Whiteways Road, Sheffield, denies manslaughter and manslaughter of Mr Marriott, but the jury was told he pleaded guilty to causing Marriott’s death by dangerous driving. He also admitted causing serious injury to Alison Norris, Ambreen Jhangur, Nafeesa Jhangur and Riasat Khan by dangerous driving.

Jhangur also denies that he tried to kill Hasan Khan and intentionally injured him. The defendant pleaded not guilty to four counts of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Jhangur appeared in the dock alongside his father Mohammed Jhangur, 56, of Whiteways Road, Sheffield, who denies perverting the course of justice.

The allegation is that he allegedly hid a knife in the trunk of his car.