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Banned driver jailed for hit-and-run death

13 April 2012

A banned motorist with 13 previous convictions for driving while disqualified and four previous convictions for dangerous driving was today given an indefinite jail sentence for killing a school dinner lady in a hit-and-run.

Heroin user Alan Steel, 26, ploughed into Paula Stead, 32, as she walked home with her 11-year-old daughter, Bridie, and her cousin's 10-year-old daughter, Danica Green, last September.

Today, at Newcastle Crown Court, judge David Hodson imposed an indefinite sentence for public protection and told Steel: "You are a thoroughly amoral individual with no regard for others. You are a complete menace to the community".

Steel had previously admitted causing death by dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and a string of related motoring offences.

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