Thugs laugh as they hit cyclist before running over NHS worker

Harrowing video shows the moment thugs laughed as they smashed into a cyclist - before running over an NHS worker 10 days later.

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00:00We began our investigation looking at the attack on Katunga, 22nd of July 2020.

00:17He left work around 4.30 in the afternoon and he was walking for his bus at the bus home

00:23and from nowhere a car attacked him from behind.

00:27He had no chance and was left with devastating injuries.

00:33It was later in the investigation, some time later in fact, that we identified this attack

00:39on Julian Ford only 10 days beforehand and realised the significance.

00:43This wasn't an isolated incident, these were two linked attacks.

00:47Kay was 21 when this happened.

00:50Physically he had really complex lacerations, cuts across his face

00:56but of course it's the psychological impact on Kay which will live with him

01:02for as long as the scars live with him for the rest of his life, I have no doubt.

01:07The attack on Julian Ford left him with fractured ribs and a hole into his ribs

01:14that caused air and blood to be trapped between his rib cage and his lungs.

01:20He was a really, really poorly man and had to spend some time in hospital.

01:25Patrick James was filming the attack and you hear him on the video

01:30and the driver laughing both before and afterwards as they drive off.

01:37Absolutely sickening.

01:38It's four years ago now and that feels like a lifetime ago.

01:43We were in the middle of Covid at the time.

01:46We made arrests pretty quickly but there wasn't direct evidence in this case.

01:51We didn't have this captured on CCTV and there weren't witnesses to the attack itself

01:59and the forensic evidence only helped us so far with the investigation.

02:03So this has been a meticulous piecing together of hundreds of little bits of evidence.