An uninsured driver has been jailed for a year after he lied to the police about his involvement in a crash which caused the death of a 68-year-old woman pedestrian.

Razwan Hussain, 21, took his uncle’s black Vauxhall Astra without permission and initially pretended to be his brother when he was quizzed by police after Iris Moss walked into the road in front of him.

Miss Moss, who had chronic mental health problems, was crossing Manningham Lane, Bradford, at about 5.30pm on June 25 last year when the accident occurred. She suffered fatal head injuries and died in hospital shortly afterwards.

Hussain, of Plumpton Walk, Wrose, Shipley, later pleaded guilty to causing death while driving without insurance, aggravated vehicle taking and perverting the course of justice.

Prosecutor David McGonigal told Bradford Crown Court yesterday Miss Moss, who lived in Oakhurst Nursing Home, Oak Mount, Manningham, was returning from the shops. She was fully mobile and allowed to leave the home at any time.

Hussain had a full driving licence but was not insured to drive his uncle’s car, although his brother was.

Miss Moss crossed the road from the central reservation without looking as Hussain approached between 30mph and 40mph. He stopped at the accident scene and gave the police his brother’s name. After returning home, he rang and confessed that he had lied.

Hussain’s mitigating counsel, James Bourne-Arton, said his client was very remorseful and felt deeply for Miss Moss’s family.

He was a hard-working student who was in shock at the scene of the tragic accident. It was not the manner of his driving he was in court for but the lack of insurance.

“He was clearly, before he got into that car, a model student and a model citizen with a bright future,” Mr Bourne-Arton said urging Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC to spare Hussain an immediate prison sentence.

The judge told Hussain that he realised what had happened “had the gravest impact on you, your career and your family” but he said the anguish of Miss Moss’s family was at the forefront of his mind.

“I am sorry for all concerned, deeply sorry, but you must go with the dock officer,” the judge told Hussain.

Hussain was also banned from driving for two years and ordered to take an extended re-test before he gets behind the wheel again.

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