The man accused of Rebecca Steer's murder had shouted a threat before mounting a kerb, a witness has told his trial. 

Katie Davies was one of multiple witnesses to give evidence at the trial of Stephen McHugh, accused of murdering Rebecca Steer and causing Kyle Roberts grievous bodily harm in Willow Street last October. 

McHugh denies both charges but has pleaded guilty to Miss Steer’s manslaughter and causing Mr Roberts actual bodily harm, which the Crown did not accept.  

On day three of his trial at Stafford Crown Court, Ms Davies told the court that she had been trying to organise a lift home after a night out in Oswestry.  

She said that she had been around the doorway of Grill Out, in Willow Street, when she saw McHugh, the driver of the Volvo car that struck Miss Steer and Mr Roberts, shout a threat from the driver’s seat of the vehicle. 

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She told Kevin Hegarty KC, prosecuting, that while on the phone, she saw McHugh with an ‘angry facial expression’. 

Ms Davies added that she then heard the defendant shout at a group of people ‘I’ll ******* get you or show you’ and that it was very clear.  

Ms Davies added that she thought McHugh was then going to get out of the car to hit the person he was shouting at, leading her to ‘take a step back’.  

She told Mr Hegarty that she also witnessed the car reversing and turning towards the group of people out. 

“He turned the car so his front end was pointing to the pavement so he could drive forward and mount it,” she said, adding the back end of the car went into the road.  

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Ms Davies added she witnessed the car go past her onto the pavement and then drive at the group of young people outside Grill Out.  

She said the scene then became ‘chaotic with people screaming and jumping’ and that she heard ‘bumps and bangs’. 

In cross-examination, Paul Hynes KC, defending, suggested that the ‘threat’ was in fact ‘I can’t be bothered with you’. 

But Ms Davies said: “Absolutely not – he shouted a threat.” 

Earlier, evidence was heard in court from witnesses Thomas Purcell and Samuel Conde who told the court that McHugh had ‘revved the car’ and that his actions had been ‘aggressive’.  

Mr Purcell told the court what he had witnessed during Miss Steer’s collision with the car. 

He said: “The first half of the car had gone over her, then it stopped, and then it went over her again.” 

He added that the ‘driver’s side front and back wheels went over her’, confirming the car paused before it continued to over Miss Steer’s chest.  

“It was like it was going over a speed bump,” he added, then stating that the car drove off fast with ‘a realisation of what it had done’. 

However, Mr Hynes KC challenged his version of events over the 20mph speed he believed the car was travelling, stating it only travelled on average 10mph. 

Mr Conde added that the car had reversed ‘aggressively’ and had stopped over Miss Steer’s body before ‘revving even more and driving off’.  

A number of other witness statements were also read into court.  

The trial continues.