Judge slammed for failing to jail pensioner who had twice been declared unfit to drive before he killed ten-year-old boy
Retired trucker Edwin Vickers, 77, was given a suspended 16-month prison term and banned from the roads for three years after reversing over Seth Bartle on the pavement
A JUDGE has been blasted for failing to jail a killer motorist twice declared unfit to drive.
Edwin Vickers, 77, hit Seth Bartle, ten, outside a school.
Seth died six days later from a brain injury.
Former trucker Vickers, stripped of his licence in 2007 and 2014 after heart seizures, admitted death by careless driving.
He got a suspended jail term and three-year road ban at Nottingham crown court.
Judge Rosalind Coe said custody would affect his health.
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Deanna Williams, a pal of Seth’s family, said: "He should have gone to prison.
"That is a travesty of justice.
“It puts no value on life.”
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