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Newry: Man jailed after killing colleague by driving over him twice

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A man who killed a work colleague by twice driving over him in a telehandler at a biomass facility has been handed a sentence of three years and four months.

Ian McCollum, aged 52, was delivering a load to the McKinstry Biomass plant in Carnbane Industrial Estate in Newry when he died as a result of what the judge said was a “catastrophic error of judgement”.

The man driving that machine was 53-year-old Walter Manley of Loanda Crescent in the city.

The court heard he had been moving materials in the telehandler with a loading bucket obscuring his view.

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He drove over McCollum who was emptying a load from his lorry.

Manley thought he had driven over a piece of wood but did not check the vehicle’s mirrors or cameras before reversing over McCollum a second time.


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