Overview

• Guildford Crown Court jailed Alex Rose and passenger Charles Pardoe for life with minimum terms set at multi‑decade lengths.
• William Birchard, 21, died at the scene and Darren George, 22, died later in hospital after their e‑bike was struck on the M3/A316 slip road in Sunbury‑on‑Thames.
• Prosecutors said Rose drove the wrong way down the slip road, hit the bike on purpose, then made a three‑point turn and passed the injured men without stopping.
• CCTV and phone evidence showed a coordinated pursuit at speeds above 60mph, with Rose on the phone to his girlfriend, Tara Knaggs, throughout.
• Knaggs was jailed for three years for assisting an offender, and a fourth defendant, Samuel Aspden, was cleared of the murder charges after separate arrests that included Rose and Knaggs at Birmingham Airport.