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Jury shown George Tapp injury footage

GRAPHIC video evidence of anti-blacklisting campaigners being carried on the bonnet of an accelerating car was shown to a jury in Manchester crown court yesterday. 

It was filmed during a protest against blacklisting outside Manchester City football club’s training ground on the evening of May 15 last year. 

Michael Collins, 20, was driving the car involved in the incident which left 64-year-old Unite activist and anti-blacklisting campaigner George Tapp with severe leg injuries and a fractured skull.

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