Overview

• Guildford Crown Court sentenced Alex Rose to life with a 34‑year minimum term and Charles Pardoe to life with a 29‑year minimum following their murder convictions on September 10.
• Prosecutors said Rose wrongly believed the riders were burglars, pursued them at more than 60mph, drove the wrong way down the M3/A316 slip road, struck the e‑bike, then performed a three‑point turn without stopping to help.
• Rose later tried to cover up the crime by dumping his truck and making a false 999 theft report, earning a concurrent 21‑month term for perverting the course of justice.
• Tara Knaggs was jailed for three years for assisting an offender after she helped arrange a one‑way flight to Istanbul; police arrested her and Rose at Birmingham Airport with about £4,000, which the court ordered forfeited.
• Victims William Birchard, 21, died at the scene and Darren George, 22, died later in hospital, while a fourth defendant, Samuel Aspden, was acquitted of murder.