Martin Eastwood, 22, driving a stolen Ford S-Max, was plowing Liam Dent’s father of two in retaliation for a minor altercation outside a pub in Chessington, Surrey. After hitting Mr. Dent, Eastwood, from nearby Epsom, drove at speeds of up to 32 mph, dragging his victim, who was screaming in the early morning hours of Saturday, July 26, 2019. Image: Liam Dent suffered “horrific” injuries after the attack, according to the court Mr Dent was still conscious after his release and his family rushed to the spot in south-west London. But he had suffered horrific injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. On Wednesday, Judge Wendy Joseph sentenced Eastwood to life in prison with a minimum sentence of 30 years after he said he must have heard his victim scream. Recalling the evidence of an expert who said dragging a body would be like “driving with the parking brake open”, he said that if Eastwood did not realize it immediately, “he should have realized it almost immediately afterwards”. “No one,” he said, “should die like this. No mother should sit on the street with her dying son who was injured. “There is no way to bypass it, it was a cruel death.” Image: The Ford S-Max used to kill Mr. Dent was later found burned Earlier, Stacey Dent told her son’s killer that “she could see all of his injuries” and realized she “had to be in so much pain. “I could immediately see, despite the efforts to keep him with us, that he was not going to survive and my heart was completely cracked and so it remains. I cry every day. “He was tortured and left dead screaming for help. Why couldn’t you stop and give him life?” Eastwood was convicted of murder after a trial in Old Bailey. Image: Jasmine Robinson was found guilty of aiding and abetting a perpetrator and sentenced to suspension He had used a car as a weapon twice in the past, according to the court, causing multiple fractures to a cyclist in 2018 and leaving a man with abrasions the following year. Judge Joseph sentenced Eastwood to two consecutive counts of grievous bodily harm, attempted grievous bodily harm and robbery. His friend Daniel Morris, 22, who had driven back in a Volvo after Eastwood had hit Mr Dent, honking his horn to stop, confessed to the murder and was jailed for five and a half years. Eastwood’s 19-year-old girlfriend, Jasmine Robinson, of Epsom, was found guilty of aiding and abetting an offender and sentenced to two years in prison with a two-year suspension. The judge barred Eastwood from driving for 10 years after his release from prison.
