A man accused of murdering two young men when he drove his black pickup truck the wrong way down a motorway slip road and ploughed into the back of an e-bike has been found guilty.

Alex Rose drove into William Birchard and Darren George as the pair rode home from the pub on one electric bike, in the early hours of July 22, last year, jurors at Guildford Crown Court were told. They were hit on the M3/A316 slip road in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey.

Prosecutors said Mr Birchard, 21, and Mr George, 22, had been on their way home from the King’s Fairway Pub in Ashford, Surrey, when they had “the very great misfortune of encountering” Rose and two of his friends. Rose had called the pair to help him hunt for people he suspected were trying to break into his home.

It was alleged Rose, 30, crashed

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