Bulwell murder accused ‘intent on getting his revenge in the most dreadful way’
A Bulwell man on trial for murder after ploughing his car into a group of people he “just wanted to scare” was “intent on getting his revenge in the most dreadful way,” a jury heard.
Duane Anthony is accused of killing 26-year-old Tyler Fairman after an argument outside Sasha's Bar, in Arnold on May 9, Nottingham Crown Court was told.
CCTV showed Anthony getting into a Red Vauxhall Astra parked around the corner and then driving back to the bar and mounting the pavement.
Anthony, aged 40, of Marton Road, Bulwell, denies one count of murder and five counts of attempted murder. He has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in relation to Mr Fairman and assault occasioning actual bodily harm against four of the five other men involved in the case.
His partner Destiny Carrier, 29, of Lothair Road in Leicester, is also on trial for assisting an offender, which she denies.
During cross-examination on Wednesday, prosecutor Gareth Weetman KC accused Anthony of “concocting a series of lies.”
He said Anthony lied: “About being slashed… About losing Destiny… About the level of aggression (Mr Fairman) was posing to you and Destiny... About genuinely trying to find her.
“The truth was you went back to that car furious and in a rage and intent on getting your revenge in the most dreadful way,” he said, adding that Anthony was “intent on killing them.”
Anthony denied every accusation and claimed he misjudged the manouevre and “just wanted to scare them.”
He previously told jurors how he was “p***** off” with the group as some had been flirting with his partner and his arm had been slashed.
Mr Weetman said Anthony got out of the car and ran away, while Carrier arrived soon after the collision.
"There is no doubt in Mrs Carrier's mind of the severity of what has just happened," he said.
Carrier told the jury on Wednesday she and Anthony left the bar because they "felt threatened" and he took the car keys to the Astra.
She tried to flag him down and only heard the collision before running to the scene.
“Everyone was really angry with me,” Carrier said. “They were shouting that it was my fault.”
Carrier left the scene and later met Anthony on the doorstep of her home on Beckhampton Road, where he told her, “it wasn't safe to stay there because he had been chased.”
Mr Fairman was taken to Queen's Medical Centre. Three days later the decision was made to stop his life support and he died shortly afterwards.
The trial continues.