A speeding driver who smashed into a car killing a much-loved literature festival volunteer was jailed for three years and four months.

Billy Horsfall fled the scene and evaded the police for eight days after fatally injuring Jane Floweth, 68, near the Guide Post Hotel in Common Road, Low Moor, Bradford, on February 24 last year.

Ms Floweth’s partner of 35 years, Catherine Pulle, 57, was seriously injured in the collision, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Horsfall, 25, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to causing the death of Ms Floweth by dangerous driving.

He told the police: “I deserve prison. I don’t deserve the light of day.”

Ms Pulle was executing a U-turn to find a parking space when Horsfall, who had been doing up to 70mph in a 30 zone, crashed into the passenger side of her blue Honda Jazz.

Ms Floweth sustained severe chest injuries, including a collapsed lung. She had a heart attack and suffered a fatal brain injury.

Horsfall told the police he did not see the Honda until the last second and would have to live with his actions for the rest of his life.

He was banned from driving for three years and eight months.

A GOOD Samaritan was knocked out cold when the knife-wielding drunkard she had offered to feed hurled a frozen meal at her head.

Kevin Cutler shouted: “Make my f***ing meal, bitch,” before seizing the woman by the throat until she couldn’t breathe and throwing her on to the settee, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Cutler, 55, a landscape gardener, of Harewood Road, Oakworth, Keighley, pleaded guilty to making a threat to kill, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and causing £300 damage to the victim’s flat by throwing crockery around.

Jailing him for 18 months, Judge Jonathan Rose said the woman was petrified during the sustained attack at her flat in Keighley, in the early hours of January 20.

A HEROIN addict who bit an off-duty police officer who was chasing after him for shoplifting was jailed for two years.

Tyrone Kerr, 23, repeatedly flouted a five year Criminal Behaviour Order by stealing from the Co-op in High Street, Queensbury, and from Lidl in Carr House Road, Shelf.

Kerr, of no fixed address, had previous convictions for assaulting the police, battery, causing actual bodily harm and shop theft, Bradford Crown Court heard.

He was caught stealing meat from the Co-op on October 3 and 24 last year after he was barred from the shop by the CRIMBO. On February 14, he was seen in Lidl wearing a black woolly hat, also in breach of the order that stated he was not to go into any store wearing a hood or hat that might serve as a disguise.

When challenged by the off-duty police officer, Kerr bit him on the stomach, the court was told.

Kerr, who was on prison licence at the time and had been recalled to jail, was a heroin addict who had been unable to access Methadone in the days following his release, the court was told. He turned again to Class A drugs, stealing meat to fund his drug habit.

A MAN whose dog bit a man in an unprovoked attack, causing him serious leg wounds, was jailed for 16 months.

John Sykes, 62, of Scholey Road, Brighouse, was walking his dog, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier called Bertie when it attacked the man, the third time it had attacked a stranger in two years.

Sykes was walking Bertie in Bowling Alley Terrace, Brighouse, with his partner, who was also walking her cat, with both animals on leads, on April 8, 2018.

The victim was wearing shorts and his skin was exposed. He had puncture holes on both legs which started bleeding instantly. He was treated in hospital for his injuries, including a wound so deep that it could not be stitched due to risk of infection.

The court heard how this was the third time Bertie had attacked an innocent person. In March 2016, he ran out of the house and bit a neighbour in the street, locking his jaws on her leg, and had to be restrained. A month before the last attack, the dog also bit a 16-year-old girl inside Sykes’ house.

After the first attack, a community resolution order was placed on Bertie requiring him to wear a muzzle in public.

Judge Jonathan Rose ordered “with regret and reluctance” that Bertie be destroyed.

TWO burglars who smashed their way into an occupied house to steal a safe they believed was stuffed with cash were thwarted when it turned out to be empty.

Jared Whitehouse and his accomplice, David Jowett, broke a window with a shovel to raid the property shortly after midnight, Bradford Crown Court heard.

It was Whitehouse’s second night-time visit to burgle the Halifax home in two days and the householder had left the empty safe on the stairs as a decoy in case he returned, prosecutor Philip Adams said.

Whitehouse, 23, of Blackburns Buildings, Brighouse, pleaded guilty to burglary with intent to steal on April 6 last year and burgling the safe from the property on April 8.

He is currently serving a 21 month jail sentence for threatening to kill a taxi driver and possession of a knife and an imitation firearm and was imprisoned for 27 months, to run concurrently.

Jowett, 37, a third strike housebreaker, of Westcombe Court, Wyke, Bradford, was jailed for 32 months after admitting one charge of burglary.

Whitehouse had previous convictions for criminal damage, rail fare dodging, theft of vehicles and fraud.

Jowett’s first house burglary was committed in 2001, followed by similar offences i