Police said Mr Marsden was involved in a row with a group of people, including Ward, in which one member suffered an injury to his lip and tooth.<\/p>\n
Ward and his friends then gathered in a 4×4 before the vehicle was driven at Mr Marsden, who jumped out of the way.<\/p>\n
Later, while behind the wheel, Ward again drove at Mr Marsden and struck him, before the vehicle then reversed over him, causing fatal injuries.<\/p>\n
Mr Marsden’s mother told the court in a written statement: “In just 14 months, I’ve lost both my husband and now my youngest, Kirk, who was tragically taken from us. <\/p>\n
“The pain is beyond words. I’m broken. My heart is shattered.<\/p>\n
“What makes it harder is that it happened over Christmas, a time meant for family, joy and love.”<\/p>\n
She said her son had been “a devoted father” and her “heart aches for my grandchildren”.<\/p>\n
Mr Marsden’s partner Leanne said: “Our whole lives have been destroyed, we are broken and struggling to cope with day-to-day living, we have lost our rock, our hero, all we have left are memories.”<\/p>\n
Det Ch Insp Bryony Midgley, of Lancashire Police, said: “James Ward killed Kirk Marsden in a senseless act of violence that has no place on the streets of Lancashire.<\/p>\n
“While no sentence can ever make up for a life that has been taken, I hope Kirk’s family take some solace knowing that the man responsible for the death of their loved one is being held accountable for his actions through this significant sentence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said Mr Marsden was involved in a row with a group of people, including Ward, in which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-461706","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\/461706","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=461706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}