A man who killed a ‘Good Samaritan’ after ploughing his car into a brawl at his sister’s wedding has been found guilty of murder.
Hassan Jhangur, 25, struck five people with his Seat Ibiza when he arrived at his sister’s wedding reception after a row broke out between two families.
Sheffield Crown Court heard that Jhangur first drove into the father of the rival Khan family, sending him over the vehicle’s bonnet, when the family fight spilled onto the street in the Burngreave area of Sheffield on December 27 2023.
He then crashed into four people including Chris Marriott, 46, who had stopped to help one of Jhangur’s sisters as she lay on the road after going out for a post-Christmas walk with his wife and two kids.
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The devout Christian was killed and three others were injured – an off-duty midwife Alison Norris and Jhangur’s own mother and sister, jurors heard.
The defendant than exited his car and stabbed his new brother-in-law, Hasan Khan, several times.
The court heard he later told officers at the police station: ‘That’s why you don’t mess with the Jhangurs.’
Jhangur denied the murder and manslaughter of Marriot but pleaded guilty to death by dangerous driving.
The jury found him guilty of murder by a majority of 10 to two after 18 hours of deliberations.
Judge Justice Morris told Jhangur, who was convicted of murder following a retrial, that he faces a life sentence.
He was cleared of attempting to murder Hasan Khan, but found guilty of wounding.
He was also convicted of four charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Alison Norris, Ambreen Jhangur, Nafeesa Jhangur and Riasat Khan.
His father Mohammed Jhangur, 57, was convicted of perverting the course of justice after concealing a knife.
The now convicted murderer was accused by the prosecution of intending ‘at the very least to cause really serious harm’ when he used his car as a weapon.
Prosecutor Jason Pitter KC told the jury that although Jhangur’s may have been targetting the Khan family, ‘the law says your intentions can be transferred from one person to another, even if he did not intend to hit that particular person’.
Pitter added a wedding between Amaani Jhangur and Hasan Khan, which had taken place that morning, ‘appears to have been at the heart of the tension’.
He told jurors that Amaani fell out with her own mother and sisters after there was an issue over the timing and location of the wedding.
None of her family ultimately attended the wedding at the mosque, he continued.
The court heard that when Amaani was at the Khan family home in College Court later, her mother Ambreen Jhangur and sister Nafeesa Jhangur arrived.
An increasingly ‘unpleasant’ argument escalated into violence on the street and led to Nafeesa Jhangur being rendered unconscious.
Marriott ‘fatefully’ decided to try help Nafessa Jhangur as she lay in the road, while his wife and children returned home from their post-Christmas stroll.
Norris, who was also out walking with her partner and children, did the same thing.
The court heard Jhangur had been told about his sister being injured, and arrived at the scene in a Seat Ibiza.
He then drove into Hasan Khan’s father, Riasat Khan, who was standing in the middle of the road talking to a 999 call operator.
The Seat then ploughed into a group of four people in the road – Nafeesa Jhangur, Ambreen Jhangur, Ms Norris and Mr Marriott – before coming to a stop in a nearby front garden.
Marriott was wedged completely underneath the car with emergency service working have to tip the vehicle to get to him.
Prosecutors said Jhangur got out of the car while the engine was still running and stabbed Hasan Khan multiple times to the left side of his head and to his chest, with a knife he had taken with him.
Jhangur’s defence Richard Thyne KC, said that although the ‘unintended consequences’ of Jhangur’s dangerous driving were ‘terrible’, ‘it was neither murder nor was it manslaughter’.
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