A driver who mowed down pedestrians in a rage-fuelled attack on Christmas Day ‘intended to kill someone’, a court has heard.

Anthony Gilheaney, 30, left a ‘trail of carnage’ after mowing down pedestrians in London’s West End on Christmas Day in a series of drink-fuelled attacks.

He had left a nightclub in the early hours of the day and was ‘beside himself with rage’ when he hit five people with his car – some of whom he targeted for ‘racist and homophobic reasons’.

One of the victims, Aidan Chapman, 25, suffered fatal brain damage and died in hospital on New Year’s Eve.

Prosecutor Crispin Aylett KC said: ‘In his wake, the defendant had left a trail of carnage. It is tempting to view the defendant’s behaviour as inexplicable. In truth, however, it is not.

‘It was borne out of a drink-f

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