'I thought he was dead' - Horrific moment van driver drags pensioner along road after ploughing into his wife
manchestereveningnews.co.ukShocking CCTV footage shows the moment that a callous delivery driver stole a woman's handbag before speeding off in his van...
despite the victim's 80-year-old husband holding onto the passenger door. Frank Stewart was dragged down Higher Market Street, in Farnworth, while wife Maria, 60, was knocked to the ground by the vehicle.
Van driver Anthony Davies, 38, later took his hi-vis jacket off and returned to the scene to return Mrs Stewart's handbag and to give police a false alibi.
More than three years after the crime, Davies was jailed for two years after pleading guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, dangerous driving, and theft at Bolton Crown Court. READ MORE : Coroner blasts 'suboptimal' care given to tragic probation hostel man Prosecution barrister Andrew Mackintosh told the court that Mr and Mrs Stewart had been out in Farnworth town centre on the evening of March 17 2019 - St Patrick's Day.
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