As they walked back to their car following a routine hospital appointment, they talked about where to have lunch. Margaret clutched the arm of her husband of 59 years as they strolled.
Sensing a chill in the air, she let go to put her hood up. Within seconds, Margaret's life would be destroyed. There was an almighty bang, before she saw a figure 'flying through the air'. "I turned to Robert to speak to him, but of course he wasn't there," she said in a statement read in court. "It [was] Robert's body that was now lying on the pavement some feet in front of me." READ MORE: Liam Fosbrook GUILTY of killing sister's 'nuisance' ex Dylan Towers Robert Palmer, 77, was in good health for his age.
He was killed by a drunk driver. Tom Ferguson, 29, had been on a four-day bender at a hotel on Buxton Road before getting behind the wheel of his BMW.
Over twice the speed limit, he drove up towards Buxton, swerving between lanes, before mounting the pavement where Robert and Margaret were walking.
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