Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A drink-driver ran over a 10-year-old cyclist and then drove home with his bike still trapped underneath his car, police said.
Keith Vernon, 76, from Sussex, has been jailed for two and a half years after pleading guilty to drink driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene.
Vernon was on his way home from the pub in West Chiltington when he ploughed into the child in his black Renault Twingo at around 10.20pm on October 6.
The boy, who was cycling with his dad and another adult, was launched over his handlebars and into the road, where Vernon then ran his car over him.
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