For the latest Stockport news sign up to the MyStockport newsletter here A van driver who killed a motorcyclist while 'grossly distracted' after using his phone has been jailed.
Kurt Sammon, 55, who had been involved in a fatal crash 15 years earlier when he hit a 13-year-old schoolboy, has been locked up for seven years.
He was also been banned from the roads for 13-and-a-half years. Sammon, who has an 'appalling' driving record, crashed into 30-year-old motorcyclist Louis McGovern, after going through a red light at a junction in Stockport.
Mr McGovern, a 'kind' and 'thoughtful' geo-technical engineer who was on his way home after work, was dragged under Sammon's Ford Transit and died the following day.
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