PC Dave Phillips Sent 'Flying Into Air'

PC Thomas Birkett, 23, was just out of probation when he saw PC Dave Phillips killed by a Mitsubishi pick-up truck driven by Clayton Williams in Wallasey, Merseyside, in the early hours of 5 October last year. Williams, 19, who denies murder, is accused of using the vehicle as a "weapon" to deliberately run down the officer in a "cowardly and merciless act". PC Birkett told Manchester Crown Court he and PC Phillips had scrambled to help catch Williams, who was driving the vehicle stole