It was just a normal afternoon for decent and well-loved mum of five Iram Shahzada when she left home to walk the short distance to collect her little daughter from school.

But within a matter of minutes the life of the 39-year-old was brutally cut short when a speeding car mounted the pavement and ploughed into her.

For the devastated family of Mrs Shahzada, known as Ruby, her death at 2.45pm on May 10 last year on a route she had taken for the past 18 years changed everything.

Jamie Taylor, who told the police he had gone to the area ‘to score drugs’ ran her down at excessive speed while uninsured and never having held a licence.

The ‘quiet, humble and caring’ mother died when she was thrown on to a grassed area at the junction of Beech Terrace and Hinchliffe Street in Bradford Moor.

As her sister-in-law, Aisha Saeed, told the court: “It’s not just one life that was taken away: five children lost their mother that day.”

Miss Saeed stood up at Bradford Crown court today to read out her victim personal statement. Although struggling to control her grief, she bravely articulated the emotion felt by herself and her family at such ‘a cruel and tragic loss.’ “The grief never gets any easier,” she said. ‘All I can do is to think about her and the children, I am not the same and I will never be the same.”

Sentencing Taylor to a total of nine years’ imprisonment for causing Mrs Shahzada’s death by dangerous driving and an unrelated wounding offence, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Richard Mansell QC, said he should not have been driving any vehicle that day.

“In simple terms, you were clearly up to no good in that area, driving a car when disqualified and uninsured and quite probably under the influence of controlled drugs,” he said.

Of Mrs Shahzada, the judge stated: “She took her normal route which was to cross the road and walk down Hinchliffe Street, on the pavement with the grassed area on her right hand side. She intended to walk right to the end of the street where it intersects with Beech Terrace and go across the grassed area on her way to the school.”

After banging into a parked vehicle, Taylor lost control of his car, drove straight on to the pavement and ploughed into her.

“By your actions you have cut short the life of a decent woman and mother,” Judge Mansell said.

“You have deprived five children of a mother for the rest of their lives, left the children’s father widowed and caused untold grief to other close members of her family.”