Three men have been jailed after being found guilty following the death of a member of a rival motorcycle who wore the “wrong colour” on their patches.
Benjamin Parry, aged 42, and Chad Brading, aged 36, both from Plymouth, were found guilty along with Thomas Pawley, aged 32, from Ivybridge the killing On the death of 59-year-old David Crawford.
Parry was jailed for 12 years, while Brading and Pawley were each given four years.
Prosecutors argued that the three defendants, who were part of the Plymouth branch of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, had acted as a “joint venture” in carrying out the fatal attack.
Parry was jailed for a long time because of his ‘significant, if not leading, role’, he was also banned from driving for 10 years.
The Ivybridge victim had also died after a collision on the A38 by Plymouth on the evening of 12 May 2022.
During a trial at Plymouth Crown Court last November, the jury was shown footage of Crawford riding his black Kawasaki motorbike on the north edge of the Devon city.
As he drove onto the St Budox slip road, he was stopped by Pawley and Brading in Pawley’s black Mercedes.
As the bike stalled, Parry, driving his work’s transit van, came up behind Crawford and rammed his motorcycle, knocking him to the floor.
Parry drove Crawford under the van at speed, joining the A38 Devon Expressway westwards.
Crawford’s body eventually came loose on an off-slip at Weston Mill Junction after being dragged hundreds of metres.
He was pronounced dead at the scene and suffered multiple “horrific” injuries as he was dragged along the road.
The prosecution stated that the three defendants sought to prey on the victim through a series of simultaneous calls and ‘signals’ and that none of them “had the decency to stop or call an ambulance.”
Punishment, Mr. Justice
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