A 13-year-old boy who ran over and killed a 60-year-old grandmother with her own car has been told he will serve two years in custody for causing her death by dangerous driving.
The judge, Mrs Justice May, heard how the boy – who can’t be identified – ran over social worker Marcia Grant outside her Sheffield home, in South Yorkshire, despite the frantic attempts of her husband, Delroy, to stop him.
Speaking at Sheffield Crown Court, the judge told the youth: ‘You made a bad choice. You knew that taking her car was wrong. You knew that taking her kitchen knife was wrong.’
She added: ‘The offence you committed was serious but it was not murder.’
She said: ‘The prosecution have accepted that you did not mean to harm Mrs Grant.’
Marcia Grant, pictured, died after her Honda Accord was reversed over her on Wednesday
The judge said it was a ‘very bad accident’.
The judge described how Mrs Grant was a committed foster carer who she said was the ‘shining lodestar’ of her family.
The court previously heard Mrs Grant died on April 5 after suffering ‘catastrophic injuries’ when she was knocked to the ground and run over by her own car.
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