A man who argued he blacked out from the sugar in his cola — and not the alcohol in his rum — when he killed a 15-year-old boy while driving has been convicted of hit and run.
Robert Parsons remained silent when Justice David Orr found him guilty of failing to remain at the scene of an accident.
At trial, the court heard Parsons drank 1.5 litres of cola mixed with three freely poured drinks of rum before he got behind the wheel.
Parsons argued he had no recollection of the incident and was in a state of automatism brought on by a diabetic blackout.
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