Alison McBlain was killed after being hit by a Fiat Punto in Blackburn ALL key witnesses in the Alison McBlain murder trial have now given evidence in court. On Tuesday, Kaylib Connolly, the 19-year-old defendant who was driving the car that hit the 36-year-old Blackburn mum on the night of November 19 2019, left the stand after three days of cross-examination. At the end of January, a youth defendant in the case told the court that the day before Alison was killed, Connolly had needed to pump-up a tyre on the Punto, as it had a slow puncture. And on Tuesday, a new witness for the defence was brought to Preston Crown Court and told the jury he had let Connolly borrow a bike pump from him, which Connolly then returned within 30 minutes.
1/1 THE teenage driver of the car that hit Alison McBlain told a jury that he didn’t mean to hurt anyone when he ploughed the car into her and Christian Rivers, and had been sick after realising what he d done. Giving evidence at Preston Crown Court on Monday, defendant, Kaylib Connolly, 19, said he’d only meant to scare victim, Mr Rivers, and did not realise he d hit Alison during the events of November 19 2019. Connolly, who had just turned 18 at the time of Alison s death, had been the driver of the Fiat Punto that hit her and Mr Rivers, but told the jury in the murder trial that it was a ‘genuine accident’, and he didn’t mean to do it .
1/1 The youth defendant in the Alison McBlain murder trial has said one of his co-defendants threatened to kill him if he told police about the events of that fateful night. The 17-year-old, who was 16 at the time of Alison s death and cannot be named for legal reasons, told the jury at Preston Crown Court that on November 19 2019, he was a back seat passenger in the Fiat Punto that hit Alison and victim Christian Rivers, along with Kaylib Connolly, Dean Qayum and Joshua Titterington.
Alison McBlain Giving evidence, the teen said co-defendant, Titterington, who he knew but was not friends with, had threatened to kill him if he grassed to the police .