Death driver explains how he lost control of his hands and feet behind the wheel

A driver who killed a pedestrian while driving ‘like a maniac’ in London’s West End told a court he was trying to escape a group of men who had punched and kicked him 87 times. Traveller Anthony Gilheaney, 30, had been drinking in a nightclub in the West End on Christmas Eve last year when he attacked a Sikh man on the way back to his car, jurors heard. He shouted racial abuse at another man before driving his silver…