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CARJACKER CONVICTED OF GBH ON WOMAN

ABOVE: Caroline Johnson's injuries left her wheelchair-bound for the foreseeable future

20th November 2009

A carjacker has been convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to a mother of four by running her over in her own vehicle.

Caroline Johnson was scraping ice from the windscreen of her Citroen Picasso people carrier outside her home in Langley, Berkshire, on December 2 last year when Kevin Richardson, 34, and passenger Karen Napper, 37, jumped in and drove off.

She was dragged up to 65ft (20m) down the road, suffering serious injuries which have left her wheelchair-bound for the foreseeable future, Reading Crown Court heard.

Richardson, formerly of Chalvey Road, Slough, who had already admitted a lesser charge of grievous bodily harm, aggravated vehicle-taking and dangerous driving over the incident, was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

Napper, of Ledgers Road, Slough, admitted one charge of aggravated vehicle-taking.

Mrs Johnson was preparing to take her son to school just before 8am when Richardson and Napper, who had spent the previous night at a drug house, leapt into the car which was parked outside her home in Humber Way.

She described the moment the car hit her as it suddenly moved forward, telling the court: "All I could hear was the engine and the accelerator and the power to the car was revving and then I felt this thud. I could feel my body floating in the air and landing on the floor and I was thinking 'S**t, he's really run me over and he's really hurt me'."

She was discovered moments later lying on the tarmac, fighting for her life. An ambulance took her to Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, where she remained for two months.

Mrs Johnson was given a blood transfusion and treated for cardiac arrest, a fractured pelvis, an open fracture to the right femur, fractures to both ankles and fractured ribs.

Richardson was arrested on December 9 when officers spotted him riding a bicycle. Interviewed by police, he claimed not to remember where he had been on the morning of December 2. Nearly five months later, on May 1, police arrested Napper, who also denied any knowledge of the crime.