These are the latest ECHO headlines this morning.
Drunk driving mum ploughs over roundabout with son, 7, in the car
A mum driving a car while four times over the drink driving limit was caught on dashcam.
Sadie Smith, 47, of Centurion Drive in Meols, Wirral, was told at Wrexham Magistrates Court it was "nothing short of sheer luck" that she didn't cause a serious accident. The court heard how her seven-year-old son was in the car with her as she drove erratically.
Dashcam footage, taken just after midday on March 19, 2022 shows the red Saab driving along a road before drifting over onto some grass on the left of the carriageway. The car then swerves to the right to gain control.
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The second piece of footage shows the car ploughing over a grass verge on a roundabout and almost hitting a road sign. Smith cried as her family sat beside her while the court was shown the footage.
Prosecutor Helen Tench said Smith had was drinking the night before and had some alcohol in the hours before she set off to find a North Wales beach. A concerned driver called police at about midday when they saw a Saab Index being driven "erratically" in Flintshire.
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Texts Ava White boy sent to his mum as schoolgirl was dying
Ava White's alleged killer texted his mum saying he was "gonna end up going the cells for nothing".
Ava, 12, was stabbed in the neck during an altercation with a teenage boy in Liverpool city centre. Boy A, 14, from South Liverpool, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies murder and manslaughter.
Prosecutors say he stabbed Ava after she pushed him during an argument over him filming a video of her, which he posted on Snapchat. They allege Boy A smirked, laughed and ran away, leaving her to die, then began a "cover up" by discarding his flick knife, designer coat and mobile phone.
READ MORE: Ava White's family sob as CCTV of her stabbing is played in court
A jury has heard Boy A accepts responsibility for fatally injuring Ava on November 25 last year, but argues he acted in self-defence. The second day of a trial at Liverpool Crown Court saw the playing of CCTV footage of the stabbing in School Lane, near The Bluecoat, off Church Alley, at around 8.35pm.
The jury was later shown various clips of Boy A and one of his friends, Boy B, 14, running away from the scene and heading out of the city centre. Boy A ditched the knife near some derelict houses and put his designer coat in a blue bag in a wheelie bin.
Read the full story from our court reporter here.
Man stole gold bracelet and crate of beer from parents' home
A man broke a restraining order stopping him from seeing his parents for a ninth time when he burgled their home.
Stuart Cornmell was banned from going to his parents' home in Peter Mahon Way, Bootle, “due to a previous domestic incident”. The order also barred him from contacting them.
But on June 18 last year a neighbour saw Cornmell trying the door handle of the family home, said Paul Blasbery, prosecuting at Liverpool Crown Court. He said: "He was then seen to climb through a first floor bedroom window and after about two minutes he was seen to leave out of the front door.
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“Twenty minutes later he returned to the premises again and entered them via a first floor window and remained about two minutes before leaving.”
When his parents’ granddaughter arrived she found her bedroom window open and £50 was missing. Cornmell’s father, Stuart snr, later realised a gold bracelet worth £400 was missing from a bedside drawer and also a crate of beer was stolen.
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