DHL driver who reversed over Scots gran with his van spared jail as family slam ‘lenient sentence’
dailyrecord.co.ukThe family of a great-grandmother who was killed by a DHL delivery driver who reversed over her has hit out after he was spared jail.
James McShane, 54, struck Elizabeth Moffat with his van as she walked along a road in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire.The 80-year-old was dragged three metres underneath the van as McShane continued to reverse the vehicle.
She suffered catastrophic injuries including a fractured sternum, multiple broken ribs and lacerated lungs.In a statement released through Digby Brown Solicitors, her family said: "This sentence is so lenient it's just floored us.
We knew a sentence was never going to undo what happened to our mum but we didn't expect this. A few hours of community service, a brief ban and not even a fine?"This simply isn't justice.
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