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David Meikle

DHL driver who reversed over Scots gran with his van spared jail as family slam ‘lenient sentence’

The 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?

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