The high speed crash that killed Gorton's 'Mr Ibiza' and set off a chain of misery and chaos

It was the height of the pandemic, when the nation had been ordered to stay at home to help prevent the spread of Covid.

Yet on Thursday April 9, 2020, scores of people defied lockdown restrictions and began gathering outside the big Tesco store on Hyde Road in Gorton. It demonstrated the raw emotion that was reverberating through the area, after the death of one of its most recognisable figures, Clive Pinnock.

Less than 24 hours earlier, 38 year-old father Mr Pinnock had lost his life after a horrifying crash outside the supermarket.

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He was riding his motorbike down the A57 in the direction of Denton when at 5:15pm, at 'high speed' he smashed into a black BMW coming from the opposite direction and which was turning right into the Tesco car park.

The high-performance Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R 998cc bike was seen 'flying through the air' as Mr Pinnock was thrown from it and left stricken in the road.

And the driver behind the wheel of the BMW520d, 38 year-old Daniel Masiulis, initially got out of his car and went over to Mr Pinnock, but was then then spotted on CCTV jogging away from the scene.

He went to an off-licence where he bought a bottle of vodka and a bottle of coke before eventually ringing the police, around 25 minutes after the ultimately fatal smash. He was hyperventilating as he the told operator on the other end of the line: "I don't know what to do, the motorbike hit my car. The motorbike was going so fast, it just hit me."

The road was closed and emergency services, including the air ambulance, raced to the crash scene. Mr Pinnock, who had suffered traumatic brain injuries as well as broken neck and pelvis, was taken to