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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maanya Sachdeva

Disqualified driver guilty of killing boy, 5, while out buying sweets for picnic

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A disqualified driver has been convicted for causing the death of a “happy little boy” while he was out buying sweets for a family picnic.

A jury at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday found Darren Jacques, 42, guilty of killing Layton Darwood on 25 August 2020, when the five-year-old fell off a trailer attached to a van Jacques was driving.

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