A driver who ran dead a woman in her nineties while trying to chase another car was sent to jail for her manslaughter.
Michael Irons, 26, cut down Ivy Warnes, 96, when she was helped across the road by her daughter in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on March 8.
The brother pensioner died at the hospital after sustaining serious injuries.
Irons tried to bump his silver VW Golf into an Audi Q7 with which he was involved in a minor road accident earlier in the day.
Police said the occupants of the Audi challenged Irons before driving back and forth in another vehicle and deliberately scraping his car along the side of the parked Audi.
Irons then dropped off his partner and young daughter and drove back to the scene where he deliberately drove to the parked Audi Q7 with the intention of bumping into the vehicle.
It was then that he plowed into Ivy before colliding with the Audi and trying to run from the scene.
He was detained by bystanders who saw the collisions.
Police said he was racist towards members of the public during his arrest.
In detention, Irons provided a 55 microgram breath test, above the legal limit of 35.
He was sentenced on Friday to 10 and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of manslaughter, criminal damage to endanger lives, driving with too much alcohol and causing death while uninsured.
Norwich Crown Court has also imposed an extended license period of four years.
Irons has been disqualified from driving for 10 years and will have to pass an extended driving test before regaining his license.
Ivy’s daughter, Jill, said her mother was the victim of a horrific and senseless incident, adding: “The tragic circumstances of mother’s death will haunt us forever.”
DI Dave McCormack of Norfolk Constabulary said: ‘Iron’s actions that day left a family without a much-loved mother and our thoughts remain with them.
‘It was a case of terrible driving standards with Irons showing a total disregard for other road users.
“Not only did he drive dangerously with an uninsured vehicle, but he continued to use that vehicle as a weapon to carry out a deliberate act of violence on another road user – and in the process the claimed the life of an elderly pedestrian. “
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