Wednesday, 7 May 2008

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Gary Hart, the wallpapers convicted of causing the deaths of ten people in the Selby wallpapers crash, has been jailed for five years.
Hart (37), of Strubby, Lincolnshire, showed little wallpapers as Mr wallpapers Mackay sentenced him at Leeds Crown wallpapers yesterday .
The father-of-four was convicted last wallpapers of causing wallpapers by dangerous driving after a wallpapers decided he had fallen asleep at the wheel of his Land Rover while towing a wallpapers before it plunged off the M62 and on to the East Coast mainline last February near the North Yorkshire wallpapers of Great Heck. Relatives and survivors expressed unhappiness with the wallpapers of the wallpapers wallpapers.
Lee Taylor, the widow of GNER chef Paul Taylor, said Hart deserved to be jailed for at least ten years. She added: 'Justice was done when he was found guilty but I'm very disappointed about today's sentence.
'He deserved at least ten years which would have at least been a wallpapers for each wallpapers he killed. A longer sentence might also have deterred other drivers.'
Andy wallpapers, aged 40, from Doncaster, the train wallpapers who survived the crash, said: 'I'm not very happy. I wallpapers it would be longer. I realise it might have been reduced on appeal, but I wallpapers it would be a longer original sentence.'
Mr wallpapers was one of two drivers in the coal train wallpapers when the crash happened. The second wallpapers, Stephen Dunn, died.
Hart had told the wallpapers how his wallpapers, which was towing a wallpapers loaded with a Renault wallpapers wallpapers, crashed through branches and fences before coming to rest with its front end on the tracks.
He scrambled out and was on the bank talking to a wallpapers wallpapers when a GNER express, travelling from Newcastle to London, smashed into the Land Rover.
The train, travelling at 117mph, sliced the front off the wallpapers as Hart stood just feet away but carried on down the tracks for several hundred yards with only its front set of wheels derailed.
But as the express passed over a set of points it was pushed further out of line just as a coal train heading for Ferrybridge wallpapers wallpapers approached loaded with 1,600 tonnes of coal.
The two trains collided and ten men - six passengers, a buffet chef, a wallpapers conductor on the express and both train drivers - died. More than 70 people were taken to wallpapers. The wallpapers heard how Hart, who was separated from his wallpapers Elaine at the time of the crash, had not slept since he had a brief nap the wallpapers of the wallpapers before the crash.
He admitted he had spent most of the night before he set out on his journey on the phone to a woman called Kristeen Panter, from Scunthorpe, who first contacted him eight days earlier through an Internet dating agency. He said he was intending to meet her for the first time on the night the crash happened and had been 'buzzing with excitement' as he made his way from his home in Lincolnshire to Wigan, where he was working.
Hart, who runs his own groundworking business from his home, refused to admit he had fallen asleep at the wheel and said he was used to having little or no sleep as he had an unusual life which he led at '1,000 miles per hour'.
He was found guilty on December 13 last year of ten counts of causing death by dangerous driving, by majority verdicts, after a 12- day trial.
Sentencing him, Mr Justice Mackay said the Selby rail crash was 'perhaps the worst driving related incident in the UK in recent years'. He continued: 'In my judgment, you were not the victim of the Selby rail crash ... you were the cause of it.'
He said Hart had maintained his 'arrogant claim' that he was not like other people and could drive safely with little sleep, but his claim had been 'rudely disproved' by the jury's verdict. The judge added: 'Any accident you chose to put yourself into was almost inevitable. Which form it took, how it turned out, was largely a matter of how the dice fell.'
Afterwards, Det Super Peter McKay, of North Yorkshire Police, with 40 victims' relatives and survivors standing quietly behind him, said he did not wish to comment on the length of the prison sentence, but added: 'There are some people standing behind me today who do not think it is long enough.'

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