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Car accident killer policeman sent to prison

A policeman who caused the death of a teenage girl in a car accident has been jailed for five years.

28-year-old Fabian Wright was off duty and driving a high performance Audi S3 Quattro when he ignored a red light on Aberdeen seafront on January 13th 2005. He smashed into a Ford Ka in which Lisa-Marie Wyllie was a passenger, sending the 16-year-old through flying the windscreen and causing serious personal injuries.

Paramedics attended the scene and rushed Miss Wyllie to hospital but she died five days later.

A jury at Edinburgh's High Court convicted Wright of causing death by dangerous driving and he was sentenced to five years in prison and banned from the road for ten years. He was also forced to resign from Grampian Police.

Sentencing, Lord Menzies said, "You took the life of a young girl who had the whole of her life to look forward to. You did a terrible wrong to her and you have done a terrible wrong to her family by taking her from them.

"Nothing this court can do by way of punishment can redress that wrong, nor can it bring Lisa-Marie back to her family."

After the court hearing, Miss Wyllie's family refused to comment on the car accident or the sentence.