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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Katie Dickinson

Man who ran over off-duty ambulance worker jailed for at least 28 years

Northumbria Police/PA

A van driver who deliberately ran over an off-duty ambulance worker after he intervened in a pub row has been sentenced to life with a minimum of 28 years in prison.

Sheldon Flanighan, 55, died and his friend Wayne Common was badly hurt when Toby Kelly deliberately drove into them in the car park of the Bay Horse Inn in Cramlington, Northumberland, in April.

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