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Driver is found guilty of murdering a cycling headteacher he dragged for more than a mile beneath his SUV

Michael Mullins, headteacher of Stretford Grammar School for 17 years, whose killer stopped to collect weight-loss medication for his cousin after leaving Mullins dying at the roadside.
Michael Mullins, headteacher of Stretford Grammar School for 17 years, whose killer stopped to collect weight-loss medication for his cousin after leaving Mullins dying at the roadside.
Simon Richardson, 35, whose cousin Gabrielle Debotte told the court both heard moaning after the collision and Richardson said: 'He is under the car.'
Simon Richardson, 35, whose cousin Gabrielle Debotte told the court both heard moaning after the collision and Richardson said: 'He is under the car.'

Simon Richardson, 35, who had just been released from prison, was convicted of murder at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court on Friday after a jury deliberated for around 11 hours. Michael Mullins, 56, had been a headteacher at Stretford Grammar School for 17 years when Richardson's Volvo XC90 struck him at a junction in Warburton on 20 April. Richardson pressed on at up to 60mph, veering deliberately side to side to dislodge Mullins before reversing over him on a grass verge in Lymm, Cheshire.

After leaving Mullins dying at the roadside, Richardson stopped to fill up with petrol and collect weight-loss medication for his cousin.

Shouts of 'Yes!' rang out from the public gallery as the verdict was returned; the judge told Richardson life imprisonment is the only sentence for murder.

Richardson's cousin, passenger Gabrielle Debotte, told the court both heard 'moaning' after the collision and Richardson said: 'He is under the car.'

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