Trucker who rammed lorry into girlfriend's house jailed for 10 years

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Trucker who rammed lorry into girlfriend's house jailed for 10 years
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Drunk Derek Wellington crashed into his partner's East Kilbride home after she refused to meet him.

A lorry driver who admitted deliberately ramming his HGV into his girlfriend's home while two children were inside has been jailed for 10 years.He reversed twice into the house in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, causing seven homes to be evacuated and two to be destroyed.Wellington was on bail at the time after a previous incident where he attacked Ms Cassidy at a hotel in Edinburgh.

He had previously pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow to a string of charges including culpable and reckless endangerment of lives. The court had heard how, despite the previous banning order, the couple had resumed contact before the ramming incident.

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