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A HUSBAND has told how his family have been left devastated by the actions of a “ruthless” hit and run driver who abandoned his wife to die on a country road.
Michael James Lundstram was jailed for eight months at Caernarfon crown court today and banned from driving for two and half years for killing Dwygyfylchi cyclist and mother-five Susan Griffiths.
The 29-year-old of Cwm Place struck Mrs Griffiths near her home, while she was cycling to work in an early morning crash last December.
Lundstram, who was driving while uninsured, instead of helping the 47-year-old mum or calling for help, fled the scene to hide in some bushes.
In a victim impact statement read to the court, her husband Arwyn Griffiths said: “We are absolutely devastated by our loss. We will feel the pain ( of Susan’s death) for many years to come.
“I can’t fathom why any human being could drive away from the scene of such a ruthless crime.
“My son, daughters and grandchildren will miss her so much.”
Ian Evans, prosecuting, said Lundstram had been playing snooker and poker all through the night before and into the early hours of the morning of the crash.
“At 5.30am on December 9 he collided with a pedal cycle. Susan Griffiths was thrown from the bike and landed in the carriageway.
“The defendant didn’t stop to see if she was OK, or call the emergency services. Instead he fled the scene and went up to the mountain where he hid in some bushes.”
Mrs Griffiths lay on the road with serious head and facial injuries for 15 minutes until she was spotted by a passing motorist.“Mrs Griffiths was still alive at this point,” Mr Evans added.
The motorist, a nurse, raised the alarm and another nurse in the village also went to Mrs Griffiths aid as they waited for emergency services to arrive.
Paramedics performed emergency first aid at the scene before she was taken by ambulance to Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor, where she later died.
Mr Evans told the court that Lundstram was previously banned from driving in 2009 and that he had no insurance at the time of the offence.Peter Moss, defending, said Lundstram had plead guilty at the earliest opportunity and was “remorseful” and “contrite”.
“This will haunt him for the rest of his life,” Mr Moss added.
He said his client had fled the scene out of “panic at the gravity of the situation” and was unaware that he had no insurance as he had left it to his wife to organise.
Mr Moss urged the court not to jail the defendant but impose a community sentence and curfew order, describing the father-of-two as “well respected” in the community.
“He is terrified at the prospect of an immediate custodial sentence.”
But Judge Niclas Parry jailed him for eight months for causing death of Susan Griffiths while driving the uninsured car. He was also disqualified for two and a half years for failing to stop at the scene of an accident and having two defective tyres on the Mondeo.
Judge Parry said Lundstram had taken a “cavalier” attitude to his insurance status but that “paled into insignificance” compared to his subsequent actions.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2012/09/04/north-wales-man-jailed-for-eight-months-over-hit-and-run-death-55578-31764728/
