Here is the latest from the Jordan Glover sentencing hearing at Bradford Crown Court this afternoon.
Glover, 24, from the Thorpe Edge area of Bradford, was this morning convicted by a jury of murdering Rahees Mahmood, 18, and of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Tommy-Lee Haigh, 19.
He was cleared of causing criminal damage to a Volkswagen Golf shortly before the fatal crash on Broadstone Way, Holme Wood, Bradford, on the afternoon of June 3 last year.
The jury found that Glover had deliberately forced a quad bike off the road, killing its passenger, Mr Mahmood, and seriously injuring Mr Haigh, the bike’s rider.
Leading defence counsel, Sam Green QC, said this afternoon that Glover’s acquittal on the criminal damage charge suggested that the tensions in Holme Wood were not an aggravating feature in his case. He had not generated the provocation himself.
Mr Green said that mitigating factors were the lack of intent to kill; lack of premeditation; some degree of provocation; his relative youth, he was still only 24; and his relative lack of previous convictions, with none at all for violence.
Glover had been advised that personal mitigation in a case like this was of limited value but he was brought up in an area of deprivation surrounded by crime, Mr Green stated.
He was brought up by loving parents in a stable home but ultimately he went off the rails.
Judge Andrew Hatton has now risen and will sentence at 3.45pm.
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