The nine-year-old’s mother wept as she read a victim impact statement to the court, saying the driver’s name was etched into her brain “like cancer”.

A family has poured out its pain in court while awaiting the sentence of a man who ploughed his minivan into a father and his nine-year-old son.

The nine-year-old’s mother wept as she read a victim impact statement to the court, saying the driver’s name was etched into her brain “like cancer”.