Overview
- Prosecutors played dashcam from multiple lorries and voice notes in which Hayley Maughan said her cousins would not stop pursuing her family’s pick-up.
- Hayley told police she begged them not to ram the vehicle and described fearing for her life moments before the crash that killed her four-year-old son, Peter.
- Richard Jory KC said Owen Maughan called a relative to say he would ram the truck, then clipped it at about 60 mph on the Pepper Hill slip road, causing it to roll.
- Peter was thrown from the vehicle and died of catastrophic injuries, while his father, Lovell Mahon, suffered a skull fracture and is unlikely to walk again, the court heard.
- The jury was told the pair had been drinking heavily earlier, Owen has admitted manslaughter and related driving offenses, both men deny murder, and Patrick Maughan disputes encouraging his son.