Aston Villa fan murder trial: Accused "feared for his life"
A MAN accused of murdering an Aston Villa fan told a jury he feared for his life when he turned his car round and drove towards an angry mob of football fans.
Lee Mockble, aged 21, broke down in tears in the witness box as he described the moment his Volkswagen Golf struck Christopher Priest after last season’s game between Aston Villa and Birmingham City.
He said he felt “two bumps” but claimed that he did not know he had run somebody down and killed them until later that evening.
He insisted he had been trying to drive around the football fans in order to get an injured friend to paramedics.
Mockble told the Wolverhampton Crown Court jury: “If I hit the brakes at any point, I thought I might have got killed.
“I thought my life was in danger and I was scared. I was panicking.
“There was a group of six to eight people on one side of the road and a group of three to four people in the road on the other side, as well as a black pick-up Jeep.
“I tried to drive right round the group on the grassy verge and pavement.”
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