Overview
- Jurors at Minshull Street Crown Court found that homeowner Callum Duncan did not cause Dean Barnes’s death by dangerous driving during the January 2023 chase.
- They convicted Adam Norman of causing death by dangerous driving after he clipped a third-party car at a Stockport junction, leading to Barnes’s fatal fall.
- Evidence showed Duncan pursued the thieves at speeds up to 36 mph in a 20 mph zone, while Norman sped across two lanes in a panicked bid to evade him.
- Prosecutors argued Duncan’s high-speed chase fuelled a personal vendetta that increased crash risk, and defense counsel countered that Norman’s junction crossing was the true cause.
- Norman and co-defendant Alexander Riley, both of whom pleaded guilty to burglary, will be sentenced in September.