Michael Scott has been jailed for six years for killing his aunt Chrissie Treacy when he drove over her having failed to keep a proper look out while reversing an agricultural teleporter outside her home.
Ms Justice Caroline Biggs said that had Scott "thought about it at all" he would have realised the risk caused by him reversing the machine across the yard while his view was obstructed. "He didn't think of her at all," the judge said, "an elderly lady, his aunt, living alone."
She said that Ms Treacy was entitled to feel safe outside her home and she put Scott's culpability higher than in a case of dangerous driving causing death.
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Ms Justice Biggs also pointed to a number of lies told by Scott to gardai after the killing when he said that his relationship with his aunt had been "the finest" and they only ever argued over small things.
