{"id":252472,"date":"2025-07-10T03:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252472\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T03:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:43:16","slug":"man-found-guilty-of-murdering-good-samaritan-by-driving-car-into-crowd-at-his-sisters-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252472\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found guilty of murdering ‘Good Samaritan’ by driving car into crowd at his sister’s wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has been found guilty of murdering a “Good Samaritan” by driving a car into a crowd at his sister’s wedding.<\/p>\n

Hassan Jhangur, 25, was convicted at Sheffield Crown Court after fatally injuring Chris Marriott, 46.<\/p>\n

The attacker hit five people with his Seat Ibiza when he arrived at the reception on December 27, 2023.<\/p>\n

Marriott, who was a devout Christian, was out for a post-Christmas walk with his wife and two sons when the vehicle struck him.<\/p>\n

\"SheffieldThe testimony took place at Sheffield Crown CourtPA<\/p>\n

He had stopped to help one of Jhangur\u2019s sisters as she was lying in the road before his death.<\/p>\n

Sheffield Crown Court previously heard that violence broke out between the families over a feud at the wedding of their children, Amaani Jhangur and Hasan Khan.<\/p>\n

Hassan Jhangur first drove into the father of the rival Khan family, who was standing in the street, before driving into four other people, Jurors heard.<\/p>\n

Marriott was killed at the scene, and the three others were injured, including off-duty midwife Alison Norris and Jhangur\u2019s own mother and sister.<\/p>\n

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Chris Marriott was killed at the scene<\/p>\n

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The convicted murderer from Sheffield denies the murder and manslaughter of the 46-year-old, but admits causing his death by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n

After the collision, the defendant stabbed his new brother-in-law, Hasan Khan, several times.<\/p>\n

The court heard he later told officers at the police station: “That\u2019s why you don\u2019t mess with the Jhangurs.”<\/p>\n

His father, Mohammed Jhangur, 57, also from Sheffield, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice after he concealed a knife.<\/p>\n

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Police officers at the scene at College Court, Burngreave, in December 2023<\/p>\n

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Prosecutor Jason Pitter KC told the jury at the beginning of the trial that Jhangur intended “at the very least to cause really serious harm” when he used his car as a weapon.<\/p>\n

Giving evidence on Wednesday, Riasat Khan, said he had been standing near his house when he heard a vehicle “screeching” as it came around the corner.<\/p>\n

He told the court: “I think it was a Seat Ibiza. The car swerved at my youngest son Adam and missed him and gone for me. <\/p>\n

“The car hit me and cracked my head open. I could hear [people] screaming and shouting ‘he’s being stabbed, someone’s been stabbed, someone has been killed, someone is dead, someone’s underneath the car.’ I was in shock, my mind was everywhere.”<\/p>\n

He said he then saw the defendant “waving a knife” and “smiling and laughing” across the road after the crash.<\/p>\n

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The man appeared at Sheffield Crown Court<\/p>\n

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Speaking following the conclusion of today\u2019s hearing, Alison Norris said the best tribute that can be given to Marriott would be for people to take responsibility for their own actions, and to look out for each other with “kindness and generosity”.<\/p>\n

Norris, who was also injured in the incident, said: “It is a relief that the legal process is finally over, but the physical and psychological impact of the attack is something I will carry for the rest of my life. This has been a genuine tragedy – people’s grief and anger resulted in violence that deeply hurt all four families involved. I suspect those who lashed out bitterly regret the damage they caused.<\/p>\n

“We were simply trying to help a woman in distress. It could have been any one of us who was hit. I grieve particularly for Chris’ family, who are rebuilding their lives with courage and love, but will always feel the tremendous loss of a kind, generous, unique man.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the best tribute we can give him is to take responsibility for our own actions so that we don’t hurt others when we are hurting and go on looking out for each other with kindness and generosity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been found guilty of murdering a “Good Samaritan” by driving a car into a crowd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,12,1620,16,1259,15,2302],"class_list":{"0":"post-252472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sheffield","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-uk-news","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-yorkshire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114826878013345128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}