Auriol Grey: Huntingdon cyclist killer fails in appeal bid

A pedestrian whose actions killed a 77-year-old cyclist erstwhile she was angered by her being connected the pavement has failed successful an entreaty against her sentence.

Auriol Grey, 49, shouted an expletive and gestured successful an "aggressive way" towards Celia Ward, who fell into the way of a car successful Huntingdon successful 2020.

In March, Grey, of Bradbury Place, was jailed for 3 years aft being convicted of manslaughter.

Court of Appeal judges dismissed her exertion for permission to appeal.

The 2 women passed each different successful other directions connected the pavement of the Cambridgeshire town's ringing road, during the day of 20 October.

In CCTV footage, Grey could beryllium heard shouting astatine Mrs Ward, a retired midwife, to "get disconnected the [expletive] pavement".

Appeal judges said Mrs Ward past "collided" with Grey and fell into the road, wherever she was deed by a car.

Her ineligible squad had sought for her condemnation to beryllium reduced and suspended.

The Court of Appeal successful London heard that, aft she was jailed, a scientist - successful a study paid for by Grey's household - recovered an autism diagnosis.

Miranda Moore KC, representing Grey, who has cerebral palsy and is partially blind, argued that the condemnation was "excessive" and the diagnosis whitethorn person made a quality successful her case.

She had argued the sentencing justice had made findings of information against evidence, stating it "came arsenic thing of a shock" helium recovered the pavement to beryllium a shared cycleway, contempt the section assembly being incapable to corroborate that.

But Mr Justice Griffiths, sitting with Lord Justice William Davis and Judge Neil Flewitt, refused to assistance support for Grey to entreaty against her sentence, concluding it was "not arguably manifestly excessive".

The tribunal heard Mrs Ward's widower said their 50 years of matrimony had ended "in the astir horrific way".

In an interaction statement, the operator of the car that deed Mrs Ward said determination was "always a portion of maine that feels guilty" and that her full beingness had "turned upside down" pursuing the incident.