Accused: Shaan Mir is on trial and denies one count of murder and one count of attempted murder after a fatal clash in an M&S car park
A showdown between a woman's ex-lovers in a Marks and Spencer car park ended in the murder of a friend brought along for support, a jury was told today.
Father-of-two Matthew Tester accompanied his friend Steven Butler to confront an ex-girlfriend's former lover and was repeatedly run over by a car and killed when the confrontation escalated, prosecutors say.
A second victim, Lee Waring, was also knocked down and suffered serious injuries following the confrontation between Ize Schoeman's two ex-boyfriends.
The story of murder in the M&S car park was told to a jury at Guildford Crown Court where 27-year-old Shaan Mir denied charges of murder and attempted murder.
The court was told that Mir had been dating Ms Schoeman but the couple broke up and the defendant believed one of her previous boyfriends, Steven Butler had been responsible for the collapse of his relationship.
Mir arranged to meet Mr Butler in the superstore car park in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, to talk about his theory - but Mr Butler decided to ensure colleagues, Matthew Tester and Lee Waring were present in case of trouble.
The jury heard that what happened next involved a punch being thrown at Mir and him getting in his car and driving straight into father-of-two Mr Tester and Mr Waring, killing the former who was known to friends as 'Tik.'
Mir reversed the car back over the men and shouted out 'you're not so f***king hard now are you'.
Jurors were told he then drove off in the car which he later got rid of while shaving his hair off to change his appearance.
Prosecutor Michael Ivers said: 'On April 22 of this year, Mir deliberately drove into Mr Tester and Mr Waring as they were walking away from his car. They had their backs turned away from him.
'He repeatedly drove and reversed over their bodies. When he finally drove off Mr Tester was dying and Mr Waring was injured.
'Mir then changed his appearance - he changed clothes, shaved his head, and he even got rid of the car. He was questioned later that day.
'The first thing he said to police was his car was stolen. He repeatedly said that. He was asked questions by police and he answered "no comment".
The jury was told father Matthew Tester (pictured) went to the meeting as a friend of Steven Butler to back him up but died from his injuries after he was repeatedly run over by Shaan Mir
'He later accepted he was the driver. He couldn't do anything other than accept that when he looked at the evidence.
'He claimed he was acting in self-defence when he was driving into those two men - if you are being attacked, you can use reasonable force to defend yourself.
'To drive into two people walking away from your car was clearly not self-defence,' said Mr Ivers.
The prosecutor told the court how Mir's then-girlfriend, Ms Schoeman, wanted to take a break from the relationship from around November 2020 to April this year.
'Ms Schoeman had known Steven Butler for years and said she had a brief relationship with Mr Butler prior to their [her and Mir's] relationship.
'Whatever was the reason, it meant their relationship started to
