Motorcyclist hit five-year-old boy and fled, court told

Kaylem Longhurst, 18, from Nantwich, has already pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in relation to the crash in Shotton, Flintshire, at about 17:30 on 11 September 2024.

Longhurst is on trial at Mold Crown Court with three other people, including his mother and brother, who the prosecution said "set a plan in motion to cover up his involvement" and help him "evade and thwart justice".

Longhurst, from Nantwich, Cheshire, his mother Terry Follows, 42, Shane Hunt, 39, and 19-year-old Dane Longhurst, all from Clwyd Street in Shotton, deny the charge of conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice.

Opening the case, Wong said witnesses saw Kaylem Longhurst "weaving in and out of cars" with no helmet and, it later emerged, no licence and no working front brake.