A drink-driver who killed a mum in one of "the worst hit-and-run cases ever seen" after he dragged her body 900 metres along a road has been jailed. Pierce Whelan, 35, had been smoking cannabis and was twice the drink-drive limit when he took his dad's car, despite having a taxi booked to take him home.
Whelan ploughed into two pedestrians in the Peugeot 406, killing one of them and dragging the victim's body half a mile down the road as horrified people watched on, reports CoventryLive. He continued to drive although the windscreen was smashed, before abandoning the car and visiting his girlfriend on June 19, 2021.
CCTV footage captured Whelan driving erratically and handing himself into police in the early hours of June 20. Mum-of-one Nawelle Tina Ormerod, 37, died at the scene and a 26-year-old man was left with a broken arm which needed nine screws to fix it.
