Jail for road rage driver

A DRIVER who deliberately knocked down and killed a cyclist in a road rage attack was jailed for life after being convicted of murder, court officials said.

A judge at Warwick Crown Court ordered Sean Richard Fitzgerald, who claimed the collision with Paul Webb was an accident, to serve at least 13 years before being considered for parole.

A six-day trial heard that Fitzgerald, 36, “used his car as a weapon” to target Webb after the cyclist damaged his wing mirror and pedalled away from the scene of the initial collision.

Fitzgerald, of Bennetts Road North, Keresley End, Coventry, pulled over at the side of the road after the first incident, but then chased and rammed Webb’s mountain bike, catapulting him into a wall near a pub.

Webb, a 42-year-old warehouse worker, died at the scene in Bennetts Road South, Coventry on April 16 last year after suffering a catalogue of fractures and internal injuries.