Sheldon Lewcock death: Driver ‘scaring cyclists’ detained for fatal crash

The court heard Willicombe drove off after hitting Mr Lewcock and running over his bike.

He later abandoned the van and eventually fled to Wales, where he was found by police hiding in a cupboard at his grandfather’s home.

Judge Heather Norton said there had been an “ongoing dispute” with one of Mr Lewcock’s friends and Willicombe but that its reason remained “unclear”.

Mr Lewcock’s mother Angela said in a statement submitted in May that she had found coping with his loss “excruciatingly hard”.

In a second statement submitted in September following Willicombe’s three-week trial, she said it had “made me feel like my heart was being ripped out again”.

Mr Lewcock’s siblings have also been significantly impacted, including some who have been unable to attend school as a result of their grief, the court was told.

Two years of Willicombe’s sentence was given for unrelated class A drug offences.