Malcolm Waite mowed down 20-year-old Lancaster University student Fenella Hawes
A student was killed by a driver branded 'the drunkest person I have ever seen' by an experienced police officer. Malcolm Waite, 68, mowed down 20-year-old Lancaster University student Fenella Hawes after he mounted the pavement.
PC Callum Walchester, who arrested Waite at the scene of the collision, said: "I’ve been a PC for 10 years and worked in roads policing for almost six years, and he was the drunkest person I have ever seen behind the wheel of a car." Fenella was a natural sciences student and had earned a bursary for a trip to Honduras as part of her studies.
"I sob for the future that she doesn't have because a drunken man chose to get into a car, knowing that this was a weapon that could kill someone, and indeed it did it killed my 20-year-old daughter. She was a young adult beginning her life and her bright future was taken out in a few seconds because of someone who did not think or did not care.
"She could not walk past a cat without stopping for a photo shoot and was looking forward to going to the cat cafe with her boyfriend. Her love of the environment and nature was shown in her enjoyment of local walks in woods, the beach and lately in The Lakes.
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