A 50-year-old woman and her son have been convicted after ramming a driver into a tree in what prosecutors described as a revenge attack. Hollie Dance and Thomas Summers chased the victim for 13 miles (21km) on roads in south Essex on 10 October 2022. Dance claimed the man had attacked her daughter in Westcliff-on-Sea earlier that day. At Basildon Crown Court, jurors found Dance and 26-year-old Summers, both of Southend-on-Sea, guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. While giving evidence during the trial, Dance was emotional when she explained the incident took place three weeks after she buried her son Archie Battersbee. The 12-year-old's life support was switched off in August 2022 after a legal battle that attracted global attention. Prosecutor Richard Scott claimed the trio drove to find the victim in Meteor Road in Westcliff at about 20:45 BST. He said Dance "stalked" the victim in her BMW along the A127 westbound, with Summers following in a rented Toyota. The victim made an "increasingly frantic" call to police, Scott said, before he was rammed into the tree in Uppermayne in Basildon by Dance. Summers mowed him down as he tried to escape on foot, the court heard
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A 50-year-old woman and her son have been convicted after ramming a driver into a tree in what prosecutors described as a revenge attack. Hollie Dance and Thomas Summers chased the victim for 13 miles (21km) on roads in south Essex on 10…
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A 50-year-old woman and her son have been convicted after ramming a driver into a tree in what prosecutors described as a revenge attack. Hollie Dance and Thomas Summers chased the victim for 13 miles (21km) on roads in…
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A 50-year-old woman and her son have been convicted after ramming a driver into a tree in what prosecutors described as a revenge attack. Hollie Dance and Thomas Summers chased the victim for 13 miles (21km) on roads in south Essex on 10…
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