This is the face of defendant Richard Clarke whose car ploughed into a taxi, leaving the driver and a devoted husband and wife injured. Sadly, Alzheimer's and vascular dementia-sufferer Kathleen Hinsley, 77, died.
She was due to travel by taxi to a day centre but sustained serious injuries and died eight days after the crash. Clarke, 37, of Bestwood Road, Hucknall, was distracted by his large dog after the hound jumped on him as he was driving along Annesley Road, Hucknall, at 9.50am on November 3, 2021.
He crashed into the stationary taxi as Mrs Hinsley's husband, Brian, helped his wife into the back seat. Clarke was jailed for 24 weeks and banned from the roads for 64 weeks, to account for his time in prison, and given a victim surcharge order for £128, when he was sentenced at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Thursday, June 23.
