Hassan Jhangur: Key points learned in trial of murderer who killed "Good Samaritan" and injured five others
As the family of Chris Marriott prepare to learn what sentence his killer will receive, here are the key points learned during the course of his four-week Sheffield Crown Court trial.
Chris Marriott was in the process of offering assistance to a woman lying in the road of College Close, Burngreave, Sheffield, on the afternoon of December 27, 2023, when he was struck by a car, leaving him with fatal injuries.
Four others were also seriously injured in the collision, including midwife Alison Norris, who was also attempting to come to the aid of the injured woman - subsequently identified as Nafeesa Jhangur.
On July 9, 2025, Hassan Jhangur, aged 25, was found guilty of Chris Marriott’s murder, along with three counts of grievous bodily harm with intent in relation to three of the others injured in the crash, Ms Norris, along with Hassan Jhangur’s mother and other sister, Ambreen and Nafeesa Jhangur, respectively.
Hassan Jhangur was found guilty of wounding with intent in relation to a fourth person injured in the crash, Riasat Khan.
Jurors also found Hassan Jhangur, formerly of Whiteways Road, Grimesthorope, Sheffield, guilty of wounding with intent in relation to the stabbing of Hasan Khan, who was attacked in the moments after the fatal crash took place.
His dad, Mohammed Jhangur, 57, also of Whiteways Road, was found guilty of one count of perverting the course of public justice.
He was seen hiding a knife in the boot of his car at College Close, moments after his son had used it in the stabbing.
As the two defendants await sentence, with the hearing set to take place on the morning of November 6, 2025, below are the key points learned during the course of their trial.
The fatal incident: what happened and when
Lead prosecution counsel Jason Pitter KC said the wedding of Hasan Khan and Amaani Jhangur, which took place on the morning of the fatal incident on December 27, 2023, “appears to be the feud and the catalyst for the violence that was to occur.”
He told jurors it was as part of Hassan Jhangur’s participation in the family “feud” that “killed Chris Marriott on the one hand and seriously injured Alison Norris on the other.”
The tension between the two families “developed into a physical confrontation with violence being used,” resulting in Hassan Jhangur’s sister, Nafeesa Jhangur, lying in the street, seemingly having been rendered unconscious, somewhere in the mouth of the junction of College Close and College Court.
In the moments leading up to the crash, which took place shortly after 2pm, Chris Marriott and his wife, Bryony, were on a post-Christmas walk with their children.
As they walked down Scott Road, to the junction with College Close they noticed Nafessa lying in the road.
Mr Pitter laid out the events that followed, as he opened the trial to the jury.
He said: “Mr Marriott decided, fatefully, that he would go to see whether he could help. His wife returned to the family home with their children, who had been upset by seeing the lady lying in the road. That was in effect, the last they were to see him alive because of what was to occur.”
The court heard how midwife Alison Norris was also out on a walk with friends and family, all of whom saw Nafeesa lying in the road.
“Alison Norris was medically trained, being a midwife, so she too went to see if she could assist,” he said.
“Those actions to help in the dispute were to unwittingly seal their fate,” continued Mr Pitter.
Hassan Jhangur had been informed of the incident involving Nafeesa, got into his blue Seat Ibiza vehicle, and drove from the family home in Whiteways Road to College Close, the court has previously heard.
Riasat Khan - the father of the groom - was, by that point, standing in the middle of the road on an emergency call to 999, as Hassan Jhangur approached from Scott Road.
Mr Pitter said: The defendant drove straight into him [Riasat Khan] using the car as a weapon...Riasat Khan was thrown up onto the bonnet of the vehicle, and his head struck the windscreen of the vehicle; he was then cartwheeled over the roof of the vehicle, as it continued beneath him without apparently braking or deviating from its path.
“As part of that same sequence, the Seat then collided with a group of four people in the road who were attending to Nafeesa: Nafeesa Jhangur herself, Ambreen Jhangur, Alison Norris and Chris Marriott.
“It came to a halt in a nearby front garden front garden. In the process, the front end of the vehicle had lifted from the road such that its wheels were no longer able to get any purchase. When the police arrived at the scene some five minutes later, they found the engine still running and the front wheels spinning in the air. One of them had to smash the driver’s window to reach in and turn the ignition off.”
Following the crash, Alison Norris was, the court heard, able to throw or roll herself to the side just prior to the vehicle impacting with the group; nevertheless, the Seat drove over her leg causing injury.
The vehicle also struck Ambreen Jhangur, causing serious injuries to her.
When it came to a halt, Chris Marriott was wedged completely underneath the vehicle, as was Nafeesa Jhangur.
Tragically, Chris Marriott suffered fatal injuries, and was pronounced dead a short time later - despite the best efforts of the emergency services staff who worked to lift the car off Chris, and others, before attempting to come to his aid.
Mr Pitter explained: “When the police and medical emergency crews began to arrive a few minutes later, they were faced with the chaos of both families surprisingly still in confrontation notwithstanding what had occurred.
“It was apparent to those attending that a woman – Nafeesa Jhangur – was still underneath the vehicle but were not initially aware of Chris Marriott until they were able to lift the vehicle...they had to tip vehicle to get to him.”
The stabbing carried out by Hassan Jhangur immediately after the crash
Mr Pitter said: “The prosecution say that the actions then of Hassan Jhangur and his preparedness to engage in violence and use a knife in the way he did are demonstrative of his mindset and what he was about.
“You see, once the car came to a halt, with the engine still running and wheels spinning (albeit he may have engaged reverse), he made his way to the Khan family home.
“That coincided with the return of Hasan Khan and his brother Hussain. Hassan Jhangur was now armed with a knife.
“Upon seeing Hasan Khan he went to him and stabbed Hasan multiple times to the left side of his head and to his chest.”
The jury heard how, amidst the chaos that was unfolding on College Close, Mohammed Jhangur, Hassan’s father, arrived on the scene in his Skoda taxi.
“Once out of his vehicle, he took the knife from his son.
“He was heard to say something to the effect of ‘give me the knife, before anybody notices it’.
“Mohammed Jhangur then took the knife to his taxi, and placed it in the boot before locking the vehicle.”
The injuries suffered by the surviving victims
Alison Norris
She suffered a fracture to the right fibula – the outer of the two bones in the lower half of the leg – close to her knee joint. She also suffered soft tissue injuries (bruising or tenderness) to her right hip and buttocks.
Riasat Khan (father of the groom)
Riasat was the first to be struck by Hassan Jhangur’s vehicle.
He suffered a large wound to his left forehead and frontal scalp area; this measured approximately 10cm long.
Prosecutors said that whilst it had the appearance of a wound which had been caused by the cutting action of a sharp implement, it was caused when he was struck by the Seat Ibiza driven by Hassan Jhangur and his head struck the windscreen of the vehicle.
Nafeesa Jhangur (Hassan Jhangur’s sister)
She suffered injuries which were described as being life-threatening.
They comprised extensive rib fractures, bruising and lacerations to her lungs, both of which had collapsed. She also suffered some fractures to her spine, a fracture to her pelvis and fractures to both of her upper arms.
There were lacerations to her liver and her spleen; these and the fractures to her pelvis would likely have bled considerably. These injuries were deemed by pathologist Dr Philip Lumb to be consistent with her having been crushed underneath a vehicle.
Ambreen Jhangur (Hassan Jhangur’s mother)
Ambreen suffered a 1.5cm laceration to the back of her left scalp; she also suffered an undisplaced fracture of the skull underneath this laceration.
She had fractures to many of her ribs, her breastbone, her pelvis nd to two of her vertebrae. Her right lung was bruised and there was bleeding inside her chest cavity.
Her injuries were also deemed to be very severe and life-threatening; they were most consistent with having been crushed under a vehicle, but they were also consistent with having been struck by a vehicle and knocked forwards or over the vehicle.
Hasan Khan (the groom)
During the course of the stabbing carried out by Hassan Jhangur, Hasan Khan sustained four wounds to his left ear; he had also sustained two fractures to his lower jaw and his skull in the area close to his left ear.
He had also suffered two or three apparent stab wounds to the left side of his back, which penetrated between his ribs and caused a penetrating stab wound to his left lung, which had collapsed as a consequence. These injuries were also described by Dr Lumb as being very serious.
What did Hassan Jhangur say in the moments after the incident?
Hassan Jhangur also suffered minor injuries in the incident and was taken to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield. Jurors heard how he made a number of comments to the officer who accompanied him to hospital.
He told that officer, “my sister was beaten up before I got there.” He then said, “to be fair, I think I could just easily say my sister’s been assaulted by whoever is living at College Close.”
Once he was at Barnsley Police Station after having received treatment at hospital, Hassan Jhangur made another comment to the officer accompanying him, saying, “I can only think of one person’s blood that is on my hands but my own.”
A short time after this, he made a further comment to the effect of “That’s why you don’t mess with the Jhangurs”.
Mr Pitter suggested the comments were “indicative” of Hassan Jhangur’s mindset.
Hassan Jhangur was interviewed on the night of December 27, 2023, and again on December 28 and 29.
He answered all questions asked of him, “no comment.”
What did Mohammed Jhangur say in the aftermath of the incident?
Mohammed Jhangur was heard to make a number of comments to officers to the effect that someone had planted the knife in his vehicle.
He subsequently rowed back from that position, and acknowledged he put the knife in the boot, but said he did it in order to “avoid the risk it might be used.”
During his police interviews, he described arriving at College Close to find lots of people shouting and swearing at each other, and what he described as a “Punch and Judy show.”
Mohammed also said he found his son Hassan Jhangur and daughter Humaria Jhangur both covered in blood.
He denied having seen his son with a knife. When asked why he had told officers upon his initial arrest that he didn’t know anything about a knife, he told the interviewing officers that his head had been all over the place and he had not been thinking straight at the time.
Has Hassan Jhangur ever admitted to anything in connection with the fatal incident?
In 2024, Hassan Jhangur pleaded guilty to the offence of causing death by dangerous driving, in relation to Chris, and the offence of causing serious injury by dangerous driving to the others harmed in the collision.
Those guilty pleas were not accepted by prosecutors. They argued Hassan Jhangur’s conduct amounts to murder in relation to Chris, and grievous bodily harm in relation to the other four people struck by his vehicle, which is also the conclusion the jury came to when they returned their guilty verdicts.
Hassan Jhangur was found guilty of wounding with intent, but not guilty of the more serious charge of attempted murder, in relation to Hasan Khan.
The Star will be providing live updates from the sentencing of Hassan and Mohammed Jhangur, which is due to get underway from 10am on Thursday, November 6, 2025. View our live blog HERE.