A van driver chased and ran over a man during a mass armed brawl on a public green in Chislehurst, a court has heard.

Alfie Tullet, 33, is accused of killing Frankie Bulbrook during the fight between two groups on July 24, 2020.

Mr Bulbrook, 34, suffered catastrophic injuries and died at the scene on Belmont Green, the Old Bailey heard.

Prosecutor Charlotte Newell QC told jurors the fight began after a petty row between the victim’s half-brother Harry Boyles and Tullet’s friend Ben Alexander.

News Shopper: Photos from the scene soon after the incident (Kent_999s)Photos from the scene soon after the incident (Kent_999s)

It escalated into a physical fight with a car jack and belt used as weapons, jurors heard.

The two men allegedly called for “reinforcements” with Harry Boyles joined by his brother Alfie Boyles and Mr Bulbrook.

Alexander was joined by Tullet, Jorge Blackman and Tommy Rose who arrived in a blue transit van from the nearby Beehive pub, it was claimed.

During the fight, believed to have involved a knife or knives, Tullet received a slash wound to the buttocks and Alexander and Blackman were also stabbed, the court heard.

Alfie Boyles had cuts to his hands and Harry Boyles sustained a fractured arm, jurors heard.

Ms Newell said: “In short, all men purposefully attended and participated in a large fight with weapons in this public area.

“A fight which appears to be borne out of the pettiest of arguments but ultimately had the most serious of consequences.

“It is the Crown’s case that Alfie Tullet participated in the fighting before moving away, entering the van in which he, Tommy Rose and Jorge Blackman had arrived, and drove onto the Green, deliberately driving at Frankie Bulbrook.

“That failed to knock Mr Bulbrook to the floor, and Mr Tullet then turned the van around and continued the pursuit, again driving deliberately towards Mr Bulbrook, which did cause him to fall to the ground.

“Tullet then drove over his body before making away at speed to the nearby Gordon Arms public house with his friends Blackman, Alexander and Rose also in the van.”

Ms Newell alleged Tullet went on to dispose of evidence.

Meanwhile, the victim’s brothers were also disposing of evidence and fled the scene, it was claimed.

Ms Newell said the prosecution say all the defendants were involved in “mass and armed disorder”.

She went on: “It is the Crown’s case that Alfie Tullet drove the van on the Green as he quite deliberately chased Frankie Bulbrook down.

“In doing so, he could only have intended to cause him at least really serious harm.

“To chase him as he fled from the vehicle could not have been an act of reasonable self-defence.

“To deliberately and fatally launch and execute such an attack which is not self-defence, is murder.”

Tullet, of East Malling, Kent, denies murder, an alternative charge of manslaughter and violent disorder.

Blackman, 32, and Alexander, 28, both from Bromley, Rose, 27, Alfie Boyles, 23, and Harry Boyles, 26, from Chislehurst, all deny violent disorder.

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