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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Aaron Curran

'Life doesn't go on' says dad of girl, 4, whose killer stepped over her body

The dad of a young girl killed by a hit-and-run driver has said life "doesn't go on" for his family.

Violet-Grace Youens was just four years old when she was struck and killed by Aidan McAteer on Prescot Road in St Helens in March 2017. McAteer was travelling at over 80mph when he hit Violet-Grace and her nan.

The then 23-year-old ignored Violet-Grace's body as he ran away from the scene, and then fled the country in a bid to escape justice. Violet-Grace died and her nan, Angela French, suffered life changing injuries.

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