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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tom Wilkinson

Family of grandmother killed by illegal e-bike rider says judge ‘failed to send message’ in teen’s lenient sentencing

The daughter of an 86-year-old woman who was killed on a zebra crossing by a teenager on an illegal e-bike said a judge who sentenced him “failed” to send the right message.

The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing under the unduly lenient scheme against the sentence received by Billy Stokoe, who was 18 when he collided with great-grandmother Gloria Stephenson and left her dying in agony at the scene.

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