{"id":404489,"date":"2026-02-02T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404489\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:22:12","slug":"kent-a2-car-chase-fury-before-boy-died-in-crash-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404489\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent A2 car chase &#8216;fury&#8217; before boy died in crash &#8211; court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A father and son were in a state of &#8220;fury&#8221; during a road chase that ended in a crash and the death of a four-year-old boy, a court has been told.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patrick Maughan, 54, and his son, Owen Maughan, 27, of Hill Rise, Darenth, both deny the murder of Peter Maughan at Maidstone Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prosecutor Richard Jory KC said the pair were driving a pick-up truck on the A2 in Kent after a day drinking in Rochester on 1 June last year, when they saw other family members in another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jory said for reasons that were unclear, the pair became angry, and after both pick-up trucks left the A2 near Northfleet, Owen drove into the wrong lane and clipped the other vehicle at 60mph (96.5km\/h). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father and son were in a state of &#8220;fury&#8221; during a road chase that ended in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-404489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}