A taxi driver who who killed a 'beautiful and selfless' grandmother and injured her friend when he crashed while using his mobile at the wheel has been jailed for two years.
Ian Penman, 67, had been on the phone for 39 seconds when he crashed his SEAT cab into the back of a skip lorry near Lincoln.
Passenger Wendy Short, from Lincoln, who was on her way home from shopping with a friend, died in the collision.
Her friend, a Lincoln woman in her 70s who has not been named, was also seriously injured.
Now Penman, of Nettleham, Lincolnshire, was been jailed for two years and banned from driving for six years after admitting causing death by dangerous driving. He also admitted causing serious injury while dangerous driving.