Chris Marriott murder trial live court updates as accused Hassan Jhangur set to arraign

Mr Storey will now open the case. He told the jury: “At around half past noon on Wednesday, December 27, 2023, Christian Marriott – or Chris, as he was known to his family, returned to the family home in Sheffield after spending Christmas in the house of his parents in law.

“A little later that afternoon, the family went for a walk in the area immediately around their house; one of their kids was eager to go out on their new skateboard.

“The family’s path took them past the entrance to a street called College Close in the Burngreave area of ​​Sheffield. There, they noticed a lady lying motionless on the road.

“Mr Marriott went to see if he could provide any assistance while his wife took the children back home. Mr Marriott was soon joined by another local lady who was also walking the family dog. a walk with her family: Alison Norris, who was medically trained and thought she too might be able to assist.

“While they were tending to the lady who was lying on the road, a Seat Ibiza car, driven by the first defendant, Hassan Jhangur, came at some speed around the corner near Scott Road and collided head-on with a man who was standing . in the neighborhood of a man called Riasat Khan, before walking into the group on College Close, consisting of Chris Marriott, Alison Norris, Nafeesa Jhangur – the lady Nafeesa Jhangur looked after and her mother Ambreen Jhangur.

“The Seat Ibiza drove right over Chris Marriott, almost certainly killing him on the spot; he also drove over Nafeesa Jhangur, who was seriously injured, and drove over or collided with both Ambreen Jhangur and Alison Norris, both of whom were also seriously injured. injured.

“Once his vehicle stopped, Hassan Jhangur got out of it, armed with a knife, which he then used to stab Riasat Khan’s son, Hasan Khan, several times on the side of the head and on the left side. of the chest, puncturing his lung in the process.

“Following this, his father, Mohammed Jhangur, the second defendant, took the knife from his son and placed it in the locked trunk of his own car, hiding it from the various police officers who were then beginning to arrive at the scene.”

The prosecution says Hassan Jhangur’s actions prove he intended to kill that day: His primary target appears to have been Hasan Khan, but he was clearly prepared to use his car as a weapon, intending to cause at least genuine harm serious to others. Although two of the people he injured with his car were his own sister and mother and were clearly not his intended targets, the law says that your intentions can effectively be transferred from one target to another; for example, if you were to fire a gun at someone, intending to kill them, but missed because your aim was poor, and instead hit and killed someone else, you would be guilty of manslaughter on that other person. Mohammed Jhangur’s subsequent actions in taking the knife from his son and hiding it in the trunk of his locked car demonstrate that he intended to help his son by removing the weapon with which Hassan Jhangur had stabbed Hasan Khan from the view of the accompanying police officers. .