Don't miss out on the big stories from Manchester's courts with our weekly newsletter A 'loving' couple of 37 years were killed when a former professional footballer ploughed into them after fiddling with his phone on the motorway.
Richard and Angela Wong, from south Manchester, died after a lorry drove into the back of them at 50mph on the M56, causing a horrific pile-up.
Today, Steven Bennett, 29, was jailed for five years for causing death by dangerous driving after a court heard he had been using his phone as a sat nav and had been trying to re-plug it in the seconds before the collision. READ MORE: Young dealer jailed after hiding crack cocaine and heroin in his pants Bennett, who played a handful of games for Barnsley in the
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