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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ashley Pemberton and Alexandra Wood

Paramedic kills cyclist in crash after 10 pints of beer

Humberside Police / SWNS

A paramedic who drank 10 pints of Guinness before ploughing into a cyclist at 60mph as he drove to a house party has been jailed for causing his death.

Robert Woodruff, 36, who was off-duty at the time, ignored his wife’s pleas not to drive to the gathering seven miles away despite being at least twice the drink-drive limit.

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