A lorry driver, who killed a pensioner just three years short of her one-hundredth birthday, has been jailed for four years.
Nora Gutmann, 97, (pic.top) from West Hampstead was fatally struck by the vehicle in busy Baker Street, Marylebone on June 17, last year.
Driver Joao Pedro Correia Lopes, 56, (pic.bottom) of Ashlin Road, Stratford pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court to causing death by dangerous driving.
He also pleaded guilty to causing false data to be recorded on the lorry’s tachograph and received another twelve months to run concurrently.
This related to his tampering with the tachograph to show his vehicle was stationary and at rest when it was being driven.
He was also banned from driving for six years and will have to retake his test.
Police were called at approximately 12.00pm to a lorry in collision with a pedestrian on the westbound Marylebone Road, near the junction with Baker Street - opposite Madam Tussauds.
Ms Gutmann was taken by ambulance to St Mary's Hospital where she died shortly after arrival.
A post-mortem gave cause of death as multiple injuries.
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