Teen suffers horror injuries after top race horse trainer sent him ‘flying through air’ when he ‘rammed bike with 4×4’

A TOP contention equine trainer is accused of sending a teen “flying done the air” aft ramming into his motorcycle with his Land Rover.

Hughie Morrison, 64, allegedly near a 17-year-old needing country for a severely fractured limb aft smashing into him with his 4x4 successful a enactment implicit the youngster approaching his land.

The Eton-educated property owner, whose stables span 100 acres, is said to person flown into a rage aft spotting the lad utilizing a pit motorcycle adjacent his equine gallops successful East Ilsley, Berkshire, connected April 23 past year.

Prosecutor David Tremain told Reading Crown Court the unfortunate and 2 of his friends had been riding on a nationalist way called the Ridgeway, which was not unfastened to vehicles, erstwhile the suspect heard their bikes and went to way them down successful his Land Rover.

Morrison is said to person stopped to instrumentality photographs of the lads, who cannot beryllium named for ineligible reasons, earlier accusing the unfortunate of attempting to thrust onto his gallops.

The 17-year-old allegedly responded “I’m conscionable pushing it mate”.

Mr Tremain told the tribunal the suspect past drove disconnected aft 2 of the youngsters, portion the unfortunate followed behind.

He said witnesses Adrienne Hopkins and Richard Skilbeck, who were retired for a locomotion further down the track, saw Morrison overtake the 3rd motorcycle which they felt “was being chased by the Land Rover”.

Ms Hopkins described seeing Morrison execute a “hard swerve” which she took arsenic a “deliberate effort to halt the motorbike”, portion Mr Skilbeck observed what looked similar “an intentional and abrupt turn”.

The authoritative continued: “The unfortunate recounts the suspect having pulled implicit to 1 side, looking astatine him, earlier accelerating and swinging consecutive into him, causing him to spell flying done the air, landing a fewer metres from the Land Rover.”

The unfortunate was thrown from his motorcycle and suffered a fracture to his close leg.

The walkers rang 999 and helium was rushed to infirmary wherever helium underwent an cognition to insert a metallic rod into his shinbone, secured with screws adjacent his ankle and knee.

Prosecutor Mr Tremain told the defendant: “I suggest you made a anserine determination to swerve to the close to halt him oregon scare him, and you realised astatine the infinitesimal you got retired of your Land Rover what the consequences were.”

In a police interview, Morrison claimed the victim, who himself has 2 convictions for driving without insurance and without a licence, tried to overtake him arsenic helium steered close successful bid to marque a crisp near crook astatine a junction connected a constrictive portion of the track, causing the “accident”.

The 64-year-old told jurors helium went up to the Ridgeway retired of interest for horseriders and walkers, and due to the fact that helium believed the bikers would harm the gallops.

He added: “The mode they went past our house and circular a unsighted country was highly dangerous. As a result, I felt they could origin a superior incidental with a horse. I person a work of attraction to everybody utilizing those gallops.”

Morrison admitted helium spoke to the victim, earlier heading backmost successful the absorption helium had travel from.

He said helium momentarily saw the lad look successful his rear-view reflector and past done his off-side window, earlier feeling the interaction of him hitting the car.

Describing the moments earlier the smash, helium said: “I saw the unfortunate astir 10 metres down maine - bang successful the mediate of my mirror. He was successful the prone presumption to spell arsenic accelerated arsenic possible.

"He was leaning forwards with his caput connected the handlebars. He had to beryllium travelling precise accelerated due to the fact that I saw him for a divided 2nd earlier helium disappeared.

“I had already started manoeuvring, I was halfway crossed the track. I next saw him retired of the operator broadside model astir an arm’s magnitude away.

"When I saw him determination I didn’t cognize what to do. His beforehand instrumentality had already caught my beforehand wheel. There was an impact. It was confusing.”

The tribunal heard however the suspect near the country earlier the constabulary oregon ambulance had arrived - but flagged officers down and told them helium had been progressive successful a collision.

Morrison denied fleeing the accident, alternatively claiming helium gave directions to exigency telephone handlers, performed a daze trial connected the victim, and acted arsenic his “chief comforter”.

He told the jury: “In the moment, I was lone acrophobic astir looking aft the boy. I didn’t deliberation I had done thing wrong.

"My full interest was to marque definite helium had due and speedy aesculapian attention…He was successful immense pain.

"I person ne'er heard anybody shriek similar that. It was precise unpleasant for everyone and unnerving.”

Morrison denies causing superior wounded by unsafe driving.

The proceedings continues.