Amazon Delivery drivers adhered to van before he was driven to his death by career criminal

A thief who murdered a “hardworking” Amazon supplier who tried to prevent him from stealing his van was detained for life.

The 42-year-old Claudiu-Carol Kondor delivered plots in Leeds last year when the 32-year-old “career crime” climbed into his van and began to drive, as a dish heard.

Mr. Kondor determined that Ross, who was of crucial importance for his livelihood, did not steal half a mile to the vehicle, while the accused reached speeds of up to 60 km / h, struck from one side to the other and two parked cars to knock it out of the van.

Mr. Kondor died of head and breast injuries that were suffered in the second crash, as the court heard.

On Friday, Ross was detained with a minimum penalty of 30 years for life on Leeds Crown Court.

Mr. Kondor's destroyed fiance said that he had dreamed of owning his own van and bought him three weeks before his death.

In a victim -memorandum -declaration of victims read in court, Mariana Gheorghe, who said, said that after his death she was “forced to return to Romania with a broken heart”.

She said he had a difficult education in Romania and moved to Italy at the age of 19, did various jobs and worked as a volunteer to help earthquake victims in 2009.

Ms. Ghorghe said Mr. Kondor came to England in 2019 and worked as a delivery driver and security officer and recognized his dream of owning his own van in July 2024.

In her explanation it says: “He liked to deliver the most from all his jobs. He enjoyed meeting people and delivering on time and correctly on time and correctly.

“When he ended his work every day, he was happy to say that he had done his best.”

Ms. Ghorghe continued: “I don't know how I will live without him, everything seems so difficult for me. I am still shocked and confused about everything that happened.

“Both me and Claudiu were the kind of people who like to work who have built up life on dreams and honest work themselves.”

Ross had guilty because of manslaughter, but denied Mr. Kondor, and claimed that he did not know that he was holding onto the van and that speeds had prompted him to lose control of the vehicle.

On Wednesday he was guilty of a majority of 10 to one with an 11th jury.

Judge Justice Goss condemned him on Friday and said: “Claudiu-Carol Kondor must have been scared in the last 45 seconds of his life when they ignored his requests to hold and drive faster and drag him along the street, which makes him suffering mentally and physically.”

The jurors heard that Mr. Kondor on August 20 last year in the area of ​​Armley in Leed's plots for Amazon with his silver transit van, which was full of plots, which he had collected from an Amazon depot.

While he was away from his vehicle and delivered a package, Ross lived, who lived nearby and bought from driving to buy cannabis, to the driver's seat and began to drive away the van, the court heard.

Mr. Kondor tried to stop him by opening the front near the passenger door of the Van and trying to climb in.

The court heard that Ross was driving further away, and Mr. Kondor hung through an open door to the moving van.

Witnesses described that Mr. Kondor's legs pulled onto the floor when he held on to the inside of the open house. A woman said she heard him screaming for help.

The public prosecutor John Harrison KC told the jury: “After the defendant had deliberately driven into two parked cars in two parked cars, he did not drive in two parked cars.”

He said Ross turned the steering wheel in the direction of a black car that was parked on the side of the road, and when it was not Mr. Kondor free of the van, he tried again.

“The second collision was with a blue car that harms the van, the parked car and mostly most clearly fatal head and breast injuries to Mr. Kondor,” said Harrison.

Mr. Kondor, who lived in Sheffield, was declared dead at the crime scene.

The court heard that Ross hit with some other people after driving away and the content of the van was removed.

In his final speech, Harrison said that “career criminals” Ross had recognized that Mr. Kondor, who was wearing a hi-vis jacket, was there, but decided that the driver was “unnecessary”.

Ross from the Conference Road, Armley, said the jury, he had previously been involved in Vans, but said that he was “never in something like that” and added that he “had stopped the van and ran away if I knew that he was there”.

He received a simultaneous sentence of six months because of a separate crime for theft after stealing cashmere jumpers from a truck.