The former Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, in the US, has apologised in court to the family of the pedestrian he killed in a hit-and-run accident last year, saying: “I know there is no one to blame for this but me.”

A bishop has been convicted of a hit-and-run killing after a court in Phoenix heard he drove on after his car had hit a 43-year-old-man.

THE Roman Catholic bishop charged with striking a jaywalking pedestrian with his car and then driving away told police he thought he had hit a dog or a cat, or that someone had thrown a rock at his vehicle.

The Catholic Bishop of Phoenix has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run death crash after police traced a numberplate to his car and found the windshield smashed.