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VIDEO-Car Thief GUILTY>Mowed Down/Kills UK Cop
Chilling Video Shows Final Moments of PC Who Was Mowed Down by Teenage Thug in Stolen Pickup Truck - Seconds After Killer Boasted to Friend 'Watch This'
A teenager jailed for 20 years for killing PC Dave Phillips with a stolen car yelled 'watch this' seconds before the police officer was run down - but the jury was never told, it was revealed today. Clayton Williams, 19, who has 33 previous convictions, killed the married father of two, 34, while high on drugs in a 'cowardly and merciless act' while behind the wheel of a Mitsubishi truck at 50mph in October last year. Williams' co-defendant, Philip Stuart, 30, who was in the stolen pick-up, told police Williams had told him: 'Watch this' in the seconds before the crash - but the jury never heard the evidence because Stuart had already admitted burglary at a previous hearing. Giving evidence at his trial Williams laid much of the blame on for the death on Stuart and told jurors that calls made on his mobile phone from the pick-up after the incident were to his grandmother because he was scared and in a panic and 'needed a cuddle'. But Stuart told police that Williams had actually called a member of his family afterwards to say: 'I'm going away. I've killed a bizzie' - slang for police officer. Shocking footage was released today and shows PC Phillips laying a stinger to slash the truck's tyres seconds before he was struck on a dual carriageway in Wallasey, on the Wirral UK. The moment of impact is not shown but the film fades back to show Williams driving on without dropping his speed. Williams, who had only been out of prison for three weeks on licence after stealing a car and crashing it in Liverpool, was cleared of murder by the jury. Tragedy: Pc Phillips, top, was killed by Clayton Williams, 19, who was jailed for 20 years after he gave him 'no chance' as he mowed down the officer while behind the wheel of the Mitsubishi truck Final moments: Footage from a chasing police car was released today and showed PC Phillips laying a stinger (circled) seconds before he was knocked down on October 5, last year - William's rear lights are on the left Aftermath: The film shows how Williams failed to stop - in fact he sped away after PC Phillips was struck and then tried to cover his tracks Heartbroken: Pc Phillips' widow Jen, pictured outside court today with her sister in law Hannah Whielden, said that she would keep every letter and card sent to her to show her children how loved their father was Pc Phillips' widow Jennifer said today she 'hated' her husband's killer and wiped tears from her eyes as the verdict was delivered, but there was no reaction from Williams in the dock when he was found guilty. Jennifer Phillips, 29, said Clayton Williams, 19, had 'robbed' her of a husband and children Abigail, seven, and Sophie, three, of their father, adding the once confident girls cannot sleep because they are scared of noises and monsters hiding in the dark since their father died. In an unusual move she took the opportunity to address the court herself and to deliver her heart-rending victim impact statement from the witness box - and told Williams, who was jailed for 20 years: 'I wrote this because of what you have done to me and my children'. Williams' co-defendant, Philip Stuart, 30, (pictured) who was in the stolen pick-up, told police Williams had told him: 'Watch this' in the seconds before the crash - but the jury never heard the evidence She said: 'When the children cry for their daddy asking me to bring him back to them, the one wish they want, while sobbing uncontrollably. The one thing I can't give them. It's gut wrenching, it's torture'. Jailing the defendant, who had 33 previous offences to his name, for 20 years, Mr Justice William Davis, said the crime was aggravated by the fact that he was already on licence at the time for crashing a stolen car. He added: 'I'm prepared to accept now, particularly after what we have heard, you must have some understanding of the devastation you have caused, but on the other hand I can entirely understand those whose statements have been read out that any remorse at the time was false, because at the time this poor policeman died you were covering your tracks. That's not remorse.' Williams, because of his age, was sent to a youth offenders' institution. Pc Phillips, a father of two, was thrown into the air and died almost instantly from 'catastrophic' injuries in the incident in Wallasey Dock Link Road, Merseyside, in the early hours of October 5 last year. Cannabis-addict Williams, who said he had been using the drug since the age of six, admitted his dangerous driving caused Pc Phillips' death, but maintained he did not intend to injure anyone and only wanted to evade capture and not go back to jail. The officer had been crouched on the kerbside deploying a tyre-puncturing stinger device to end the 80mph chase when Williams mounted the central reservation and drove at him. Williams told the jury of nine women and three men that he was trying to drive around the stinger spikes and did not see Pc Phillips until the second before impact. He narrowly missed Pc Phillips' colleague, Pc Thomas Birkett, 23, and was earlier cleared by the jury of a charge of attempted grievous bodily harm with intent against that officer. Pursuing police cars radioed 'Officer down! Officer down!' and stopped the chase to tend to their colleague who lay dying in the road as Williams vanished into the night. He dumped the car, showered, burnt his clothes and gave his phone away before he was arrested the next day. Chase: Williams had stolen the red truck (pictured) that killed Pc Phillips during a burglary and was chased through Merseyside by police High speed: Williams tried all he could to lose police but tragically Pc Phillips was struck and killed as he swerved to avoid a stinger Upsetting: Pc Phillips' family were forced to watch the moment he was hit over and over again during the trial, which ended today The father-of-two, who died of his injuries in hospital, is pictured here with his wife Jen and two children Abigail, left, and Sophie, right Pc Phillips' widow, Jen, 29, and the couple's daughters, Abigail, seven, and Sophie, three, described him as a loving, caring 'super daddy' in moving floral tributes laid at the scene of his death. Today, Mrs Phillips, his sisters Hannah Whieldon and Kate, and mother and father, Robin and Carol, watched from the public gallery as the jury delivered its verdict. Quote:
During the two-week trial they had relived the final moments of his life as a video recording of the incident was played frame by frame, over and over again in court as Williams denied murder. Following sentencing Detective Superintendent Richie Carr said he welcomed the verdict and hoped it would give some closure to Pc Phillips' family, who themselves were serving 'their own life sentence'. He said: 'Pc Phillips died in the line of duty as he was assisting his colleagues in attempts to arrest Clayton Williams who just an hour earlier had stolen a Mitsubishi pick-up truck during a burglary at a commercial premises in Birkenhead. 'In the hour before Pc Phillips' murder Williams drove dangerously and at speeds of up to 80mph in built up, residential areas, at times he even drove on the wrong side of the road. He refused to stop for patrols and his dangerous driving put the lives of other road users at risk. 'Throughout the pursuit Williams showed that he was a competent driver, who was capable of evading two pursuing officers and he was ruthless in his attempts to resist arrest. When he approached Pc Phillips he did not try and avoid the officer, and his colleague, instead he mounted the central reservation and drove directly at Pc Phillips. He hit Pc Phillips head on causing catastrophic fatal injuries and then he drove at Pc Birkett, who miraculously managed to jump out of the way of the oncoming vehicle. 'Following the collision Williams did not stop at the scene to try and help Pc Phillips, he drove off at speed and then abandoned the car before trying to cover his tracks.' He added: 'This is a truly tragic event that has affected many people and I like to take the opportunity to thank the investigation team for the professionalism they have shown throughout this case. Murder investigations are always difficult, as there is always a human cost, and our officers are fully aware of that, but when a murder investigation involves a colleague it can make it more difficult. It is vital that the investigation remains impartial and objective to maintain the integrity of the case and the team have managed to do this throughout.' Helen Graves, senior crown prosecutor with Mersey-Cheshire Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said: 'Williams drove a stolen vehicle at dangerously high speeds through residential areas and then collided with a police officer who was simply doing his duty. 'His actions on that night have devastated the family of Pc Phillips and robbed the police force of an upstanding and valuable member of the team. This has been a complex and difficult case and the CPS would like to thank Merseyside Police for their help in bringing this case to court. 'The family of Pc Phillips have behaved with tremendous dignity and courage throughout this trial, despite having to face the details of the last moments of their beloved husband, father, son and brother. Our thoughts remain with them at this very difficult time. PC Phillips suffered fatal injuries when he was hit by the stolen Mitsubishi being driven by Williams, here on a dual carriageway on the Wirral Jurors were not told full details of Williams' previous criminal record or evidence from other defendants, who had already pleaded guilty, that contradicted what he told the jury from the witness box. Philip Stuart, 30, who burgled the property and was a passenger in the Mitsubishi told police seconds before hitting Pc Phillips, Williams said to him: 'Watch this!' Williams had smoked four or five spliffs and was on his way back from a drug deal to buy more cannabis before coming across a premises, Oxton Estates, in Birkenhead and agreeing to burgle the property with Stuart, around 1am on October 5. By the time the 69-year-old resident living above his shop got downstairs the vehicle and many other items were gone. The defendant, who had a photo of him smoking a spliff as his Facebook profile, took a photo of the stolen vehicle and sent it to a friend on his mobile to show off. Williams, who had smoked cannabis from the age of six, had smoked four or five spliffs on the night he knocked down Pc Phillips Aged 18 at the time, he had come out of a Young Offenders Institute on September 11, just three weeks before Pc Phillips was killed. In May last year he had been caught and jailed after he was again pursued by police in a Vauxhall Astra stolen in a burglary, reportedly narrowly missing a pedestrian before smashing into a lamppost in Wallasey. After taking the Mitsubishi, Williams was spotted by police at 1.58am but made off at speed followed by an unmarked police BMW and a liveried police Volvo, which began recording the chase on a dashboard camera. Williams clocked 80mph as he drove over several miles through Wirral during the 10-minute pursuit, at one point hitting a parked Ford Fiesta. Pc Phillips, working a 10pm to 7am night shift from Wallasey police station with Pc Birkett, scrambled to help the pursuit, driving to Wallasey Docks Link Road, where Pc Phillips, standing on the central reservation, threw the stinger device across the dual carriageway. Just before 2.08am the truck and pursuing police cars approached the area, with Williams doing 70mph on the 30mph stretch of road. Williams mounted the central reservation then turned sharply left striking the officer with the front of the truck before Pc Birkett jumped out of the way. There was insufficient evidence to say exactly how fast Williams was driving at the time of impact, but the minimum estimate given in court was 50mph. Despite efforts to save his life, Pc Phillips was pronounced dead in hospital at 3.15am. Williams told the jury he would do 'anything' to get away from police and not go back to prison and was scared when they began to chase him. 'It's just adrenaline you get when you get behind the wheel,' he said. After dumping the car he went to his aunt's house in Wallasey and 'broke down crying' telling the jury he needed a cuddle from his grandmother. His co-accused Stuart later told police he called a family member to say: 'I'm going down. I've killed a bizzie.' While there he showered, burned his clothes, gave his phone away, and claimed he intended to give himself up but was arrested while arranging to meet a solicitor. Williams said: 'I was scared. Everyone was telling me I was going to get life. I only just got out after a short sentence. 'I didn't intend to kill him, I just went out to rob the shop.' He complained arresting officers kept calling him a 'scumbag' and answered 'no comment' to questions but submitted prepared statements with the help of his solicitor where he accepted he was involved in the burglary and was the driver of the truck. Later Williams, of Wheatland Lane, Wallasey, said he was 'a cannabis addict' who was heavily under the influence at the time of the incident. He had earlier admitted the charge of burglary when he took the vehicle and aggravated vehicle taking, the aggravated element being the death of Pc Phillips. The defendant maintained while he drove dangerously and was responsible for Pc Phillips' death, he never intended to harm or injure any officers and only wanted to escape capture to avoid going back to jail. Philip Stuart, 30, of Prenton, Wirral, the passenger in the truck with Williams, had admitted burglary and aggravated vehicle-taking by being allowed to be carried in the Mitsubishi. Stuart, who has 32 convictions for 57 different offences and was serving a community order at the time of the fatal incident, was jailed for six years. Three other people, who burned Williams' clothes and dumped the ashes in bushes along the River Mersey, admitted conspiracy to assist an offender. Georgia Clarke and Michael Smith, both 19, were at the home of Williams' aunt, Dawn Cooper, 34, in Wheatland Lane, Wallasey, where her nephew fled after the incident. Clarke was jailed for a year while Cooper and Smith were jailed for two years each. Williams will begin his sentence in a Young Offenders' Institution because of his age before being moved to a jail. Quote:
The Moment PC David Phillips Was Hit Hundreds Attend PC David Phillips' Funeral in Liverpool The City STOPS to Pay Respects to a Brilliant Police Officer END RIP DAVID . |
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