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Mobile phone driver guilty of killing two young girls
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Yorkshire Post
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November 21, 2006
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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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