A devastated dad screamed “you just killed my son” at an uninsured driver after watching him plough into his newborn baby’s pram, a court was told.

James Paul Davis, 35, is accused of killing 18-day-old Ciaran Leigh Morris who was mown down on his first ever outing on Easter Sunday last year.

A court heard Davis was driving a BMW at 67mph in a 30mph zone moments before he smashed into the pram being wheeled by parents Camaron Morris and Codie Holyman.

The court heard the young parents, both aged 18, watched in horror as the car mounted the kerb and pinned the pram against a wall in Brownhills, Walsall, West Mids.

Horrified witnesses desperately tried to revive the tot but he died a few hours later in hospital from his injuries.

Eyewitness Caine Edwards was walking with his friends on Brownhills High Street when the crash happened.

He told Wolverhampton Crown Court: "I heard a bang and saw a car swerving towards us, the car hit the pram and hit the wall, I was in shock.

"I saw Camaron shouting ‘You just killed my son’.”

Daniel Kennedy was a rear passenger in a white Ford B-Max which was also struck by the BMW moments before the fatal crash.

He told the court that he chased Davis down the street as Camaron and Codie desperately tried to save their baby son.

Mr Kennedy told jurors: "It felt like every second was a minute, I decided to run after the driver.

“I was running on adrenaline. I wanted to get a clear shot of his face on my phone."

"I knew I could run until it ended, I knew what I wanted to do. Because of my job I knew I could run until I had to.

"I got a clear shot of him (Davis) in Tesco car park. I saw him on his hands and knees and out of breath."

Jurors heard Davis had been driving without insurance or a licence and had traces of cannabis in his system when he ploughed into Ciaran's pram at 4pm on April 4 last year.

Ciaran’s devastated parents were heard screaming “the baby, the baby” as they frantically tried to revive their son on the pavement.

Tattooist Jenny Butler told the court how she witnessed the crash which happened just metres from her shop.

She said: "I saw the BMW mow down pedestrians on the pavement and crush the pram
containing the baby.

"I heard screaming, I saw the passenger try and exit the car, he was skinny, ginger and wearing a white T-shirt.

“Members of the public were screaming at him and he ran off.”

Another witness, Dean Athersmith told the court how he heard Davis call his girlfriend after the crash and tell her he had “run over a baby”.

He said: “I noticed a man running towards us.

"The man looked very rough, like he had been in a fight, he had blood running down his leg.

“He was big and kept on pulling up his T-shirt to show his belly.

"He said 'I've just run someone over, I need to phone my missus, I am going to go down for a long time'.

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"I wouldn't give him my phone, but I put the phone number in my phone. The number just rang out and then he tried again and a woman answered.

"He told her 'I'm really sorry I've ran over a baby, I've killed it, please look after my baby’ which made me think he had a child.

"When he got off the phone I asked him why he left the scene he said, ‘They [sic] after me’.

"It was like he wanted me to stay with him but I told him I had to go and he ran off."

The court heard mum Codie suffered a broken collar bone and a bruised foot in the crash and has been left with constant back pain.

Davis, of Bloxwich, West Mids., denies causing death by dangerous driving, causing death while uninsured and causing death by careless driving.

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