THE jury in the case of a Cwmbran doctor accused of death by dangerous driving has been sent out and has been asked to elect a foreman and return a unanimous verdict.

The judge has spent the morning summarising the evidence put before the jury over the last week of the trial.

Vincent Hamlyn, who has worked at Nevill Hall Hospital, is on trial accused of causing the death of motorcyclist Kevin Morgan by dangerous driving on June 21 last year. He has pleaded not guilty.

Mr Morgan, 60, from Cwmbran, died at the scene of the collision with a black convertible BMW Z4, driven by Hamlyn, on the A449 outside Newport, just off the Coldra roundabout. He had been riding his white Kawasaki motorbike at the time.

Judge Michael Fitton QC discussed topics including the speed of the vehicles, their positioning, the road surface and conditions, and the views of experts.

Judge Fitton QC showed CCTV footage of the BMW and motorbike driving past the Coldra roundabout and summarised the views of experts about the speed they were travelling at the time.

It has been agreed by the prosecution and defence that the BMW was driving at approximately 62mph and the motorbike at 56mph, but Judge Fitton told the jury not to take these as 'gospel accurate' as they were only predictions of notional speeds.

He said it was for the jury to 'wrestle with' the detail as there had been some debate about the speeds

Judge Fitton QC told the court that the prosecution's case "relied on a series of components" and not purely on the speed of the vehicles.

"If they said speed alone then their prosecution would be bound to fail," he said, as when put into context it was common sense that driving in good conditions with no defects was not inherently dangerous.

"Be it on a motorway or a built up area there are hundreds of factors that come into play," he added.

"That's why the definition of dangerous driving is one for you to determine."