A JCB driver has been jailed for three and a half years after he knocked a 79-year-old retired university lecturer off his motorbike and killed him while under the influence of drugs.
Dr Anthony Hindle suffered serious head and chest injuries and was tragically pronounced dead at the scene after Joshua Whittaker, 24, collided with Dr Hindle’s Suzuki bike when he was pulling out of a construction site on May 21, 2020.
The granddad-of-seven had a PHD in ergonomics and spent 30 years working as a senior lecturer at Lancaster University. He was killed instantly.
