A moped driver knocked down a 78-year-old woman and screamed, “What were you doing walking in the middle of the road?”, as she lay dying. Simon Coker, 32, was over the legal alcohol limit for driving and had taken cocaine the previous evening. He told police that he left the scene because people who ran to help Helen Doherty “were giving me s***”. Coker, a convicted drug dealer, was jailed for eight years by a judge who said that he had shown “temerity and cowardice” after causing the death of the widow and church volunteer, described as a “kind-hearted community stalwart”. She had been on her way to buy freshly baked pies for a friend recovering from cancer surgery when she was knocked down at…

Source: The Times August 15, 2017 11:03 UTC