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AN alleged killer who mowed down a rival gloated afterwards: “I hope he dies.” Ryan Willicombe is said to have used his van as a missile, smashing into 19-year-old Sheldon Lewcock and leaving his broken body bleeding in the street. Mr Lewcock died from multiple organ failure five days later while Mr Willicombe fled, with the help of his father, to south Wales, a jury has been told. Police found him hiding in a cupboard, Reading Crown Court heard on the first day of the trial on Tuesday, April 16. Nineteen-year-old Mr Willicombe, of Home Straight, Newbury, denies murdering Mr Willicombe and att…

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