A businesswoman was jailed for all times immediately for murdering an e-bike rider with whom she was in a ‘feud’ by ramming him together with her Vary Rover.
Zoe Treadwell, 36, took the regulation into her ‘personal fingers’ when she killed Joey Johnstone after chasing him at speeds of as much as 75mph on residential roads and ramming him from his bike in April final yr.
Mr Johnstone, 28, was one among three males who have been ‘focused, situated, hunted after which mown down’ by Treadwell or others ‘doing her bidding’.
In a second ‘grim’ assault a number of weeks after the primary, Treadwell had an affiliate – Jonjay Harrison, 25 – pursue her ex-boyfriend, Josh Lovell, and ram him into him with a Mercedes, knocking off passenger Free Jenkins, 30, on the similar time.
The ‘grudge’ was stated to have concerned quite a few individuals in Bournemouth and first erupted after Treadwell had an acrimonious break-up with Mr Lovell.
The mother-of-three – who was discovered responsible of homicide final month – immediately obtained a life sentence with a minimal time period of 35 years.
The general public gallery , at Winchester Crown Courtroom erupted in cheers and clapping when Treadwell’s sentence was introduced, with one individual shouting: ‘Might you rot in hell, Zoe.’
Treadwell was additionally convicted of the tried homicide of her former accomplice, and inflicting grievous bodily hurt with intent in opposition to Mr Jenkins within the second incident on Might 1.
Mr Jenkins suffered life-changing accidents, together with the amputation of a part of his leg.
Jonjay Harrison, 25, was additionally convicted of the identical fees in opposition to Mr Lovell and Mr Jenkins.
He was jailed for all times with a minimal of 32 years.
Sentencing Treadwell, Mr Justice Thomas Linden stated: ‘I settle for for the current functions that he was goading you by biking in circles round your own home.’
He stated that Mr Johnstone’s kids had been ‘left fatherless by your actions’.
The choose continued: ‘Your response was wholly unjustified and disproportionate – you aren’t entitled to take the regulation into your individual fingers, you possibly can have stayed in the home and referred to as the police.’
Businesswoman Zoe Treadwell, 36, was discovered responsible of murdering an e-bike rider after she ‘hunted him’ in her Vary Rover and mowed him down at 75mph
Joey Johnstone, 28, was ‘hunted’ down and rammed off his e-bike by Treadwell as a part of an ongoing feud
Jonjay Harrison, 25, was additionally convicted of the identical fees in opposition to Treadwell’s her ex-boyfriend, Josh Lovell, and his passenger Free Jenkins
A sufferer impression assertion learn to the court docket on behalf of Mr Johnstone’s accomplice Sophie Quinn stated that their kids have been ‘confused’ as to why their ‘daddy’ was not coming residence.
Ms Quinn stated that their five-year-old daughter shouts ‘daddy’s residence’ every time she hears noise on the door, whereas their nine-year-old son ‘cries himself to sleep’.
She stated she has suffered with PTSD, anxiousness, despair and insomnia since Mr Johnstone’s loss of life.
‘The psychological burden of what was carried out to everybody round me has been mentally difficult – how can I assist them once I’m damaged?’ she stated.
Ms Quinn stated: ‘On the ninth April, our lives modified for the more serious.
‘Joey, occurring a motorbike experience for the night to to by no means return residence, to have my soulmate taken away from me.’
The household have been planning to go on a four-week ‘vacation of a lifetime’ in Might 2025.
‘At 30 years previous, I needed to plan the love of my life’s funeral as an alternative of travelling the world as a household,’ she stated.
Michelle Rush, Mr Johnstone’s mom, stated in an announcement learn to the court docket by the prosecutor on her behalf that her son was ‘proud as punch to be a father’.
Ms Rush stated her ‘head is an entire mess’, and he or she is on medicine for anxiousness and despair.
She stated: ‘I’ll lastly be at peace once I’m again within the arms of my son.
‘For now, I am making an attempt to get via this in spite of everything that she has destroyed.’
Opening the case for the prosecution final yr, Sarah Jones stated there was ‘ill-feeling’ between Mr Lovell and his associates and Treadwell and her associates, which led the defendants to suppose ‘they have been entitled to make use of any strategies to instil concern, to show individuals a lesson’.
‘They’ve sought to obliterate their enemies and the weapons with which they selected to do which were automobiles,’ she stated.
Police and forensics groups on the scene of one of many assaults in April
Three males have been ‘focused, situated, hunted after which mown down’ by Treadwell or others ‘doing her bidding’
The prosecutor continued: ‘Within the early hours of April 9, 2025, and within the afternoon of Might 1, 2025, there occurred two horrific collisions – in every occasion a automobile was pushed intentionally and with stunning aggression into younger males driving e-bikes.
‘The boys had been pursued by the automobiles, chased across the streets of East Howe in Bournemouth after which rammed with the automobiles.
‘The results have been unsurprisingly extraordinarily extreme.’
The crash which killed Mr Johnstone occurred on April 9 2025 on South Kinson Drive in Bournemouth, when Mr Johnstone and a good friend have been out driving their e-bikes.
Treadwell left her home at 1.44am and shortly afterwards a CCTV digital camera caught a ‘chase’ which confirmed her Vary Rover travelling at ‘wildly inappropriate speeds’.
Mr Johnstone was knocked off and was pronounced useless on the scene.
Then, on April 27, Treadwell despatched Harrison a message saying ‘convey me Josh Lovell too begging’ and provided him some money.
Harrison replied: ‘I can get josh straightforward however received to kind it via somebody’.
Harrison was driving a Mercedes on Might 1 when he got here throughout Mr Lovell driving a motorbike with Mr Jenkins on the again and ‘seized the chance’ to pursue him at speeds of as much as 48mph, the prosecutor stated.
For Treadwell’s defence, Alisdair Williamson stated immediately that she was ‘unable to regulate impulses in the identical means as different individuals’.
He stated that she has labored as a healthcare assistant beforehand, and in safety.
Nick Haggan, defending for Harrison, stated that he has a 5 yr previous daughter and he might be ‘disadvantaged of the chance to see that lady rising up’.
Following the sentencing, Kate Lewis, senior district crown prosecutor of the Crown Prosecution Service, stated: ‘These acts signify an appalling disregard for human life. On two separate events, a automobile was used as a weapon in opposition to three males, acts that weren’t accidents however intentional makes an attempt to kill.
‘Tragically, one among these assaults resulted within the lack of a younger life, inflicting immeasurable ache to family members and the broader group.
‘Joey Johnstone’s household misplaced a beloved accomplice, dad, and good friend. Others have been left with critical and life-changing accidents. Our ideas stay with all of them.
‘We labored intently with Dorset Police to ascertain a compelling case demonstrating that the victims have been intentionally recognized, situated, pursued, and in the end harmed by Zoe Treadwell and Jonjay Harrison.
‘The Crown Prosecution Service is dedicated to making sure that offenders who convey mindless violence to our communities are prosecuted and face the total weight of the regulation.’
Two different defendants, Taylor Warwick, 18, and a 17-year-old boy, have been discovered not responsible of homicide, the choice cost of manslaughter.
