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Second trial in killing of Currys driver
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The brother of a man convicted of manslaughter denies committing the same offence. David Harris
and Jane Wharton report.
NEARLY THREE YEARS after truck driver Ian Jones was run over by his own vehicle, a second man has gone on trial for his manslaughter.
Jones was killed in August 2003 when he tried to stop his 18-tonner being stolen from outside a Currys depot in Chingford, Essex.
In 2004, John Clarke of East Ham, London pleaded guilty to Jones' manslaughter and was sentenced to nine years in jail, reduced to seven and a half years on appeal (CM 1 November 2005).
Clarke's brother Mark has now gone on trial at Southwark Crown Court, also charged with manslaughter.
Mark Clarke was not in Jones's truck when it ran over Jones, but he is alleged to have dropped his sibling off at the scene of the crime and is charged with 'joint enterprise' in the manslaughter and theft.
Michael Worsley QC, prosecuting, told the court: -The defendant was engaged in joint venture: a plan by both of them to steal.'They must have realised the reckless course of conduct they were engaged in exposed other persons to a serious risk of injury" The court heard that Jones was run over several times by his own truck despite pleading for the vehicle to stop.
Worsley said: "I'm not going to detail all the injuries. However. you can imagine what happened to a body run over by an 18-tonne lorry."
After the killing, Mark Clarke fled to Spain and then to Ireland. He was arrested in June last year when living in Harold Hill, Essex.
Mark Clarke, now 21, denies manslaughter and theft.
The trial continues.