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Evening Standard
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Sophie Robinson

Driver who was on phone jailed for nine years over crash that left elderly couple dead

The family of two pensioners killed by a dangerous driver have described their “horror” that the couple’s remaining years were “stolen from them” as the motorist was jailed on Friday.

On Friday, Patricia Pringle, 56, was convicted at Leicester Crown Court of dangerous driving after killing Clive Jones, 89, and his wife Elaine, 82, by colliding into their car while using a phone as she was driving near Barrowden, Rutland, in May 2022.

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