Thursday, July 20, 2006

Hijacker admits killing woman with sister's car

A petty criminal on the run from rivals admitted yesterday that he had knocked down and killed a woman while driving a car which had been hijacked from her sister only minutes earlier.

The grim coincidence saw supermarket worker Pamela Phinn, 48, thrown six metres (20ft) across a main road while taking her two grandchildren for a walk less than a mile from her sister's home.

Paul Wales, 47, of Walton, Liverpool, muttered "I'm sorry" as he left the dock at Newcastle crown court while relatives of his victims shouted abuse. He will be sentenced in September after probation and social service reports, but was warned that a jail term was all but inevitable.

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