Plea to motorists on mobiles
A father whose daughter and her schoolmate were killed by a driver just after he came off his mobile phone today urged other motorists not to use theirs.
Mick Casterton was speaking after Robert Murray, pictured, aged 51, was convicted of two charges of causing death by dangerous driving and told he will go to prison.
Rebecca Casterton, aged 13, and Lauren Brooks, 12, died when Lauren's mother's Renault Clio was clipped by Murray's lorry and sent somersaulting over the central reservation of the A38 at Clay Mills, near Lichfield.
Mr Casterton said: "The fact Murrary had been messing about with his mobile just prior to the accident is dangerous."
Sentence on Murray was adjourned for reports.
Rebecca, of Holly Road, Barton under Needwood, and Lauren, of Forest Road, Burton upon Trent, were both pupils of John Taylor High School in Barton under Needwood.
A jury yesterday afternoon took less than three hours to find Murray, of Summer Close, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford, guilty of both offences.
