Two men face prison for running down NHS worker with a car in targeted attack

Two men are facing situation aft being convicted of conspiring to inflict grievous bodily harm connected an NHS idiosyncratic who was near earnestly injured aft being deed by a car that mounted the pavement arsenic helium made his mode location from work.

As helium laic connected the floor, helium heard 2 men moving distant and 1 of them said the “n-word”, Bristol Crown Court heard.

Phillip Adams, 26, and Patrick James, 22, who were successful the car that deed Mr Tjitendero, were convicted by a assemblage of conspiracy to inflict grievous bodily harm.

The assemblage heard Mr Tjitendero suffered a fractured fibula, fractured chemoreceptor and lacerations to his caput and some shins and required surgery.

In a video interrogation recorded by constabulary the pursuing day, a visibly injured Mr Tjitendero described however his caput deed the windscreen of the bluish Honda Accord car.

The musician, from Bristol, said helium had been looking astatine euphony videos connected his telephone and wearing headphones erstwhile helium was abruptly “hit by a car”.

In the constabulary interview, Mr Tjitendero told officers: “At first, I conscionable thought it was immoderate benignant of crash.

“Then erstwhile they got retired and said what they said… It is conscionable 2 achromatic kids and past they bash that and accidental the n-word and tally off. I was conscionable similar wow.

“I decidedly heard the n-word. I can’t truly retrieve what they looked like, I conscionable retrieve 2 achromatic males.

“They conscionable got retired of the car. As soon arsenic they deed me, they near the car and ran off.”

Eyewitness Alison Adams told however she saw the car instrumentality a “sharp crook to the close and purpose consecutive into wherever the houses were”.She described however the 2 men who ran from the conveyance had their hoods pulled up, with 1 wearing a “Scream” benignant mask, and the different with a scarf implicit his face.

“By that time, I realised idiosyncratic had been deed by the car going into the wall,” she added.

Anjali Gohil, prosecuting, said James and Adams were wrong the Honda travelling astir the Southmead country “looking” for Mr Tjitendero.

A technological introspection of the car afterwards recovered Adams’s DNA connected the inflated driver’s airbag, and James’s DNA connected the beforehand rider window, Miss Gohil said.

Two different men, Jordan McCarthy, 22, and Daniel Whereatt, 51, who were accused of being successful a adjacent getaway car, were acquitted of conspiring to inflict grievous bodily harm.

James was besides convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent pursuing a akin incidental 10 days earlier successful Avonmouth successful which a Ford C-Max mounted the pavement and knocked a cyclist, Julian Ford, disconnected his bike.

Mr Ford suffered a rib fracture, a haemothorax, a lung wounded and humor successful his chest.

The offence lone came to airy aft James was arrested successful transportation with the onslaught connected Mr Tjitendero and a video was recovered from his mobile telephone which showed a car mounting the pavement and hitting a cyclist.

James, of Lawrence Weston, Bristol, and Adams, of Southmead, Bristol, who was absent for the trial, volition beryllium sentenced connected Monday.