A speeding driver has been jailed for four years after ploughing into an 89-year-old great-grandmother as she crossed a road on her mobility scooter while heading to buy vegetables for a family dinner.
Rayner Middleton, 31, pleaded guilty to causing the 'tragic and senseless' death of Doreen Raynor by careless driving in a city centre while she had an excess of a cocaine metabolite in her body.
A court heard she was 'aggressively' travelling at almost 50mph in a 30mph zone at the wheel of an Audi when she struck the pensioner.
The great-great-grandmother, who was just a month shy of her 90th birthday, was rushed to hospital following the incident in March 2023 but pronounced dead hours later after suffering multiple injuries.
Sentencing Middleton, Judge Steven Coupland said the victim's family's future 'will forever be marked by an empty space at the table and a blank space in photographs.'
