A teen who was run over after she got off a bus urged police to hunt down the driver minutes after being attacked, the Old Bailey heard.

Kate Sheedy, former head girl at Gumley House Convent School in Isleworth, was in a life-threatening condition but gave a description of her attacker's vehicle to police before she was transferred to a specialist liver unit at King's College Hospital.

Levi Bellfield, 39, of West Drayton, denies attempting to murder Miss Sheedy, now 21, after she got off a bus on Worton Road in Isleworth in the early hours of May 28, 2004.

Detective Constable Michael Jones, who was called to give evidence, said he spoke to Miss Sheedy at West Middlesex Hospital within a couple of hours of the alleged attack.

He said Miss Sheedy, who suffered a collapsed lung, broken ribs and a ruptured liver, was lying in a bed with a mask over her mouth.

"She was clearly in pain but surprisingly well enough to converse quite clearly," he told the court.

"She noticed that the car had stopped and had turned its lights off. She thought that this was a bit suspicious."

He said Miss Sheedy recounted the events of that night and described the vehicle as a "white people carrier with blacked out windows".

D Con Jones told the jury: "She said it was deliberate. Her closing line was please get the bastard.'"

From photographs, Miss Sheedy later picked out Ford Galaxy and Renault Espace as having a similar shape and size to the vehicle which ploughed into her.

The judge, Mrs Justice Rafferty, placed a temporary reporting ban on the case this morning, referring to an article which had been printed in a national newspaper the previous day. She later lifted the ban.

Bellfield also denies the murders of Marsha McDonnell and French student Amelie Delagrange, the attempted murder of Irma Dragoshi, and the kidnap and false imprisonment of Anna-Maria Rennie.

The trial continues.

7:03pm Wednesday 28th November 2007

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