Published: 3:56PM GMT 02 Mar 2010
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Bryan Griffiths in his gyrocopter - Mr Griffiths is charged with killing by sum loosening Photo: WWW.AIRTEAMIMAGES.COM 
Trevor Morse died at Long Marston airport nearby Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire Photo: PA Bryan Griffiths, 55, is charged with the killing by sum loosening of Warwickshire Hunt part of Trevor Morse at Long Marston airfield, nearby Stratford-upon-Avon, on Mar 9 last year.
Birmingham Crown Court listened Mr Morse had been perplexing to stop Mr Griffiths, who had been monitoring the lane from his gyrocopter, from receiving off again after he stopped to refuel.
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Gareth Evans QC, prosecuting, told the court: ""Just underneath a year ago, on Mar 9, 2009, a 48-year-old man called Trevor Morse, who was on purpose perplexing to stop a gyrocopter receiving off, was killed.
""He was killed when his head was struck by the back propeller knife edge of the gyrocopter. That gyrocopter was being driven by this suspect along the runway of Long Marston airport in Warwickshire.
""The knife edge of the back propeller cleaved Mr Morse"s head from tip to bottom. Unfortunately it additionally dramatically private a apportionment of his brain and threw it afar from him. Mercifully genocide was instantaneous.
""The charge contend that this man, the defendant, is criminally probable for this death. We contend that he is guilty of manslaughter, we contend that he caused Trevor Morse"s genocide by his own sum negligence.""
Mr Evans pronounced Griffiths on purpose gathering the gyrocopter at Mr Morse, with the back propeller spinning at a speed coming 200mph.
He said: "Doing so, we say, was forward in the impassioned since the stratagem carried with it a very, really genuine risk that Mr Morse would come in to strike with the revolving, defenceless back propeller blades of the gyrocopter."
The justice listened Mr Morse was behaving as a highway guard on Mar 3 last year during the last day of the sport deteriorate for the Warwickshire Hunt.
Mr Evans pronounced Griffiths owned the gyrocopter and nonetheless he was not an anti-hunt activist, had formerly flown the appurtenance on tip of the lane to guard their actions, mostly with a newcomer filming them.
On that day, when Mr Morse speckled the gyrocopter streamer off towards Long Marston airport to refuel, he got in a Land Rover with a associate lane believer to confront the pilot.
When they were at the airfield, Mr Morse attempted to stop Griffiths receiving off by station in front of the gyrocopter.
He refused to move out of the way, and as Griffiths gathering forwards in the gyrocopter the back propeller held Mr Morse, slicing his head from tip to bottom.
The jury was shown an edited video of the event in between Mr Morse and Griffiths - held on camera by the man who had brought the fuel to the airfield, Peter Bunce.
As he refuses to move out of the way, a voice can be listened to contend to Mr Morse: "You are interference him receiving off, you have no right to do that, you have no right to do that."
The video shows Mr Morse enlisting the assistance of the woman, who cannot be declared for authorised reasons, to come and mount in the approach of the gyrocopter.
The propellers can be listened to speed up, followed by a bang.
The video shown to the jury was cut at the point the propeller strike Mr Morse, afterwards cut again to see him lying on the ground.
A voice can afterwards be listened to say: "Oh dear, the ---- didn"t mount transparent of it."
Mr Evans pronounced it was utterly transparent Griffiths longed for to leave, and additionally transparent Mr Morse was not peaceful to let him leave.
He said: "There is no disbelief about it. His goal was interlude that gyrocopter from receiving off. He was not station there for the great of his health.
"At one theatre he changed the Land Rover closer to the gyrocopter to stop it removing afar in an try to retard the getaway.
"He done it solid that he was interference that gyrocopter"s taking flight and when asked to get out of the approach he refused to do so."
Mr Evans pronounced Griffiths had not kindly inched towards Mr Morse, but had trafficked at speed.
He said: "This was not a ubiquitous nudging movement. It was carried out, we say, at speed. This was no inching movement."
Mr Evans asked the jury to cruise multiform things when examination the video, together with either there was a opening Griffiths was aiming for when he gathering the gyrocopter at speed.
The justice listened that in talk Griffiths told military Mr Morse had changed and he was aiming for a gap, but the video filmed by Peter Bunce referred to Mr Morse had not moved.
Mr Evans said: "The defendants box is that he did zero rapist and that as far as his actions were counsel they were acted out of necessity."
But the prosecutor told the jury Griffiths could usually rely on the counterclaim of prerequisite if he acted to forestall himself being killed or severely harmed, and if his actions were in accord with and proportionate.
He said: "The charge contend there was no approaching risk of the suspect or his newcomer being killed or severely injured.
"We contend thats only not on. Mr Morse had done no threats, he had done no attempts to take the keys or forestall the refuelling operation and we contend at all times was taking advantage of a pacifist opposed stance."
He pronounced nonetheless there had been teenager incidents involving the pro and anti-hunt groups, there was no story in this box of lane supporters utilizing assault opposite the people who did not await the hunt.
Mr Evans pronounced Griffiths had felt nervous about Mr Morse being at the airfield, and had even created the registration series of the Land Rover on his palm.
But he pronounced this confusion was "far, far removed" from the fright compulsory by the law to consecrate the counterclaim of necessity.
Griffiths, of Bedworth, north Warwickshire, denies one equate of causing killing by sum negligence.
The box continues.
