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Mobile phone driver guilty of killing two young girls

A lorry driver has been convicted of killing two schoolgirls who died when his vehicle collided with the car they were travelling in moments after he finished a call on his mobile phone.

Robert Murray, 51, was found guilty yesterday of two counts of causing death by dangerous driving after a five-day trial at Stafford Crown Court.

The jury was told that Murray, of Wrockwardine Wood, Telford, Shropshire, was using a mobile without a hands-free set shortly before the crash which claimed the lives of Rebecca Casterton, 13, and 12-year-old Lauren Brooks.

The best friends, both pupils at John Taylor High School in Barton- under-Needwood, Staffordshire, were rear seat passengers in a Renault Clio ...

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