Mum dies after e-bike hit-and-run murder

A woman who died after being knocked off an e-bike in a hit-and-run incident has been named as mother-of-one Alana Armstrong. Derbyshire Constabulary said Ms Armstrong, 25, from Tibshelf, died at the scene of the collision in Batley Lane, Pleasley, at around 8pm on Tuesday.

Police said the collision involved an e-bike and a dark-coloured 4×4, believed to be a Land Rover Discovery, which followed two e-bikes before ramming one of them – causing the rider and pillion passenger to fall off the bike.

The car then drove off without stopping. Police confirmed it was now a murder investigation. The rider of the bike, a man in his 20s, was taken to hospital and has since had to have his leg amputated below the knee.

“Alana was just 25 – and a mum to a six-year-old boy," chief superintendent Dave Kirby said. “Her little boy, along with her wider family, will never get the chance to see her again, hug her again, spend Christmas together, or celebrate all those milestones.

“My thoughts, as well as those of the whole force and community, are with them at this time.”

Two people, a man and a woman both in their 30s from the Skegby area of Nottinghamshire, who were arrested in connection with the incident have been released without charge and have been ruled out of our investigation. Police want to hear from anyone who saw a dark coloured Land Rover Discovery, believed to be manufactured between 2004 and 2009 in and around the Pleasley area prior to 8pm.