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Evening Standard
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Ben Mitchell

Mother jailed for five years for causing death of son in crash on blind bend

A father has said he feels “betrayed” after his mentally ill wife was allowed to pick up their son from school just hours before she crashed her car at high speed on a blind bend, killing the nine-year-old.

Barbara Roe, who is diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder, was driving at more than 76mph as she was overtaking a white Ford van on the A354 Salisbury Road, at East Woodyates, north Dorset, colliding head-on with a DAF lorry with a trailer of livestock.

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