Brunelle makes alleycat videos in which he rides around cities including London “doing dangerous stuff” such as weaving in and out of traffic, narrowly avoiding pedestrians and going into bus lanes, the Old Bailey heard. In a legal first, he faces an additional charge of the manslaughter of Briggs, from Lewisham, south-east London. Alliston had taken the bike out on 12 February last year to buy food in Shoreditch for himself and his girlfriend. “I was cycling at a safe and reasonable speed personal to myself,” Alliston told the court. Alliston told the court that if he had had a brake, “I wouldn’t have had enough time to pull it.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2017 11:13 UTC