A man drank eight pints and killed a pedestrian in a hit and run before stopping to buy wine and fish and chips on the way home. James Wood, 62, had been arrested for drink-driving just two weeks before.
Despite this he went on a seven-hour binge in the pub with friends, drinking eight pints. He then got in his red Citroen Berlingo and was driving along Walton Bridge Road in Shepperton, Surrey, when he hit Brendan O’Connell, 52.
But instead of stopping he carried on, leaving Mr O'Connell in the road, before stopping to buy two bottles of wine and some fish and chips on the way home on September 19 last year. When officers arrived at his home and found his damaged car, Wood denied the accident or drinking and continued to do so throughout his trial.
