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Policeman convicted after fatal road traffic accident

A Scottish police officer has been warned to prepare for a jail sentence after being found guilty of killing a teenager in a high-speed road traffic accident.

A jury at the High Court in Aberdeen took just four hours to convict Grampian Police Constable Fabian Wright of causing the death of 16-year-old Lisa-Marie Wyllie on the city's notorious Beach Boulevard. He was travelling at more than one-and-a-half times the speed limit when he sped through a red light and collided with a Ford Ka in which the teen was a passenger.

Miss Wyllie was thrown from her vehicle by the force of the road traffic accident and was left lying in the road with serious personal injuries. She was rushed to hospital and doctors fought for five days to save her before she finally passed away.

The court heard how Wright was off-duty at the time of the incident and was driving a powerful Audi S3 Quattro along Aberdeen's seafront, an area infamously popular with boy racers. He had been travelling at more than 50mph and the resultant road traffic accident left the Ford Ka impaled on a traffic pole.

Speaking after the verdict, Lisa-Marie Wyllie's father, Edward, said, "The only thing I really want to say at the moment is we think they came to the right verdict. It's been proven and it's good.

"All the evidence was there and it was against him. I thought it went the way it should've and there was plenty of evidence there against him."

Asked his opinion of his daughter's killer, Mr Wyllie commented, "Well, I don't like him awful much."