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14.08.2023 - 12:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Two men have been found guilty of causing the death of a teenage girl after she was mowed down while she walked to college.
Alisha Goup, 16, was hit by Omar Choudhury after he mounted the pavement.
Choudhury, 22, had been travelling at 66mph in a 30mph zone shortly before the collision, on Rochdale Road in Oldham.
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He had been trying to overtake a car on the wrong side of the road, before clipping another vehicle and losing control.
Shortly before the fatal collision, he had been pursued by Hamidur Rahman, 24, a member of his extended family who he had 'beef' with.
The pair both admitted driving dangerously but denied causing the death of the teenager.
But following a trial at Minshull Street Crown Court, both were convicted and now face prison sentences.
Prosecutors said that Rahman blamed Choudhury for informing his family about a relationship he was having with a woman, which her family 'disapproved' of.
The pair, both driving BMWs, met in a chance encounter earlier on Chadderton Way on February 23.
Rahman brandished a baseball bat and Choudhury then set off ‘like a rocket’.
Rahman was driving ‘aggressively’ and was ‘intent on pursuing him’, prosecutor Henry Blackshaw said.
Witnesses who saw the cars speed by thought the cars were 'racing'.
Rahman turned off the road a few seconds before the collision, but the prosecution said he was just as guilty as Choudhury, because he'd made a ‘significant contribution’ to how Choudhury drove.
Alisha was pronounced dead at the scene following the collision, which occurred at about 1.30pm near the Royal Oldham Hospital.
Choudhury told a police officer at the scene: “I was driving down the road and I was
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