Driver guilty of murdering Rebecca Steer in Oswestry hit-and-run

A drink-driver who ploughed into a assemblage of pedestrians extracurricular a takeaway, fatally injuring a student, has been convicted of her murder.

Rebecca Steer, 22, died successful infirmary aft the onslaught successful Oswestry, Shropshire, past October.

Stephen McHugh, 28, primitively from Liverpool, admitted drinking six beers, galore shots and taking up to 7 lines of cocaine earlier helium struck her.

He was besides convicted of attempting to origin grievous bodily harm with intent.

Jurors astatine Stafford Crown Court deliberated for much than eight-and-a-half hours implicit 3 days earlier convicting McHugh by a bulk verdict.

McHugh had antecedently claimed successful tribunal helium had been trying to frighten a radical of radical erstwhile helium had mounted a footpath.

Ms Steer, an undergraduate astatine Liverpool John Moores University from Llanymynech, Powys, was dragged nether his conveyance successful the aboriginal hours of 9 October.

A 2nd pedestrian Kyle Roberts was besides deed and injured by McHugh.