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    Boy, 13, told police ‘looks like I got my first kill’ after running over foster mother

    by Dave Higgens Nov 29, 2023 4 minutes
    Source: PA

    The family of a “pillar of the community” who was killed when a boy she was fostering ran over her with her own car have said they feel “completely let down” by the decision to drop a murder charge against the defendant.

    Grandmother Marcia Grant suffered catastrophic injuries as she tried to stop the youngster taking her vehicle from outside her home in the Greenhill area of Sheffield on 5 April.

    A court heard that the 60-year-old’s husband, Delroy, desperately tried to, who had never driven before, as he knocked down the much-loved foster carer and reversed over her.

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