Jason Pitter KC and Ben Campbell appear in conviction of “Good Samaritan” murder case.

Jason Pitter KC and Ben Campbell appeared for the prosecution in the tragic case of a man, dubbed a “Good Samaritan” by the media, who was murdered when he was driven over by the Defendant.

The circumstances of the case had attracted widespread national publicity because the deceased, who had been out on a family walk in the days after Christmas, had stopped to assist an apparently unconscious woman on a road in Sheffield.  In doing so he became unwittingly involved in two families feuding in relation to a wedding earlier that day.  Tragically, whilst administering that assistance he was run over and killed, by the defendant who was the woman’s brother.  The woman along with her mother and another passerby also suffered life threatening injuries.  None of those people were the intended target, it being alleged, on the basis of transferred intent, that the Defendant had been using his vehicle as a weapon directed at members of the rival family, one of whom was also struck.  In the melee that followed the Defendant had used a knife to injure the groom, in what he asserted was self-defence when he was attacked by members of the rival family.

He was convicted after a 5-week trial before Mr Justice Morris of murder, 4 counts of causing GBH with intent and 2 counts of wounding with intent.  His father was convicted of perverting the course of justice, in relation to hiding the knife that was used.  Their cases have been adjourned for sentence.

The case was widely reported here

BBC: Man found guilt of “Good Samaritan” murder

ITV: driver-who-killed-good-samaritan-guilty-of-murder

The Independent:  “Bride’s brother convicted of murdering Good Samaritan with his car before stabbing groom”

Authors

Jason Pitter KC

Call 1994 | Silk 2014

Ben Campbell

Call 2008

Related areas

Crime

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