'As far as he is concerned, you can throw the key away,'
Mark Fensome, 43, had been out drinking with work colleagues shortly before his Land Rover ploughed into Lily Morris, 10, in Coleridge Road, Oldham, days before Christmas. The schoolgirl suffered a traumatic brain injury and died in hospital.
Dash cam footage played to the court showed Fensome driving 'aggressively and erratically' along Ripponden Road just moments before the crash. At one point, the Land Rover could be seen driving immediately behind a vehicle before overtaking it. Fensome got out of the car and looked around before driving away from the scene with the lamp post underneath his car.
A 'clearly intoxicated' Fensome was arrested minutes later and was said to have been unsteady on his feet and smelling of alcohol. Ian Bridge, mitigating, told the court that Fensome had gone through a 'difficult young life' but had working consistently for more than ten years and had managed to stay out of trouble. He said the defendant was 'full of remorse' for what had happened.
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