Cylcist was ‘asking for trouble’ before death crash

A cyclist accused of killing a pedestrian while illegally riding an Olympic-style track bike enjoyed taking risks and was ‘asking for trouble’, a court heard. Charlie Alliston, 20, crashed into HR executive Kim Briggs, 44, at up to 14mph as the mother-of-two tried to cross the road on her lunch break in busy Old Street in central London. Ms Briggs, who had recently started work as head of human resources at the nearby office of genealogy website Find my Past,…