The heartbroken family of a Royal Navy veteran who was killed by a stock car racer who had been drinking before the crash have slammed his 'unjust' sentence.Marc Fortune, 28, was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow today after killing John King on the A92 between Lochgelly and Cowdenbeath in Fife.
Fortune had been behind the wheel of his 4x4 pick up when he ploughed into the back of a Vauxhall Meriva driven by the grandfather on September 12, 2020.The 63 year-old's car was forced off the road and ended up spinning down an embankment.
John - who had served in the Royal Navy for 25 years - suffered from a heart attack at the wheel and never survived the crash.
John's devastated family say their grief is still as raw as the day they found out about his death as they branded the killer's sentence as "disappointing".
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