Coward left man, 26, for dead with horror injuries - then went to a party
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe mother of a young man whose life has been 'ruined' by a brain injury suffered in a horror crash told the speeding driver who caused it 'I forgive you' in court.
Maison Green, 26, was on his way back from the gym when Gary Tomlinson, 51, who had been drinking, undertook and ploughed into him at more than twice the speed limit.
Tomlinson then 'left him for dead' and fled the scene in Collyhurst, north Manchester, going to a party where he carried on drinking before eventually being arrested in the early hours. READ MORE: Previously independent and hard-working Maison, who was not expected to survive the smash, suffered 'permanent and irreversible' damage and now requires round-the-clock care in what a judge described as a 'living nightmare' for him and his family.
However, in a deeply moving scene at Manchester Crown Court, Mr Green's mother told Tomlinson that she did not believe he had set out to hurt her son.
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