A man who had attended his father’s funeral, and later got into a car after drinking, then knocked down and killed a local woman who had travelled home for the requiem mass of her uncle, a court has heard.
A middle-aged man who pleaded guilty to drink driving and dangerous driving causing the death of a woman attending a family funeral has said he will live with the guilt for the rest of his life.
A man who had just attended the funeral of his father before he knocked down and fatally injured a mourner while drink driving was jailed for 18 months.