"I can only see it as murder on the highway." These are the words used by the partner of a woman whose life was cruelly taken by a drug-driver.
Dealer Joseph Trussell had been using cocaine into the early hours of July 18, 2020, Bristol Crown Court heard. Still under the influence he drove for a re-stock of drugs, taking his young daughter and step-daughter with him, and smashed his BMW head-on into a Toyota driven by Peter Reeves in which his 85-year-old partner Barbara Everton was a passenger.
Bristol Crown Court heard grandmother-of-five Mrs Everton sustained significant internal injuries and was transferred to Southmead Hospital. Tragically she died a week after the collision.
