A MAN accused of attempted murder has admitted running over a man in his car, but told jurors he had no intention of killing him.

On day three of his trial at Oxford Crown Court yesterday, Rohan Crooks, left, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to Orville ‘Dean’ Francis.

Crooks has already admitted dangerous driving, but denies attempted murder and an alternative charge of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

He also denies wielding a knife outside shops in Blackbird Leys Road moments before the hit-and-run in Cuddesdon Way on October 10, 2008.

The 34-year-old told jurors his brother had been shot dead in his native Jamaica just days before the incident and that he had been the victim in a knifepoint confrontation outside shops in Blackbird Leys Road.

Crooks, of Sturge Avenue, Walthamstow, London, said Mr Francis initiated the confrontation before another youth, named only as Liam, pulled a knife on him.

The defendant said: “I was furious at the time because they had just tried to kill me, stab me up, making threats against my life. I had just lost my brother, all of them things.

“I swung my car at (Mr Francis). When I swung my car at him I didn’t do it with no intention of danger, (nor) want to kill him. I was just furious at the time, I was going through a lot of emotions, it just happened.

“I didn’t have no intentions to hurt, my intention was just to scare.”

The trial continues.