‘I found myself in the graveyard trying to decide what I’d write on his headstone’

IN her victim impact statement to the court, Cathleen Lawless said Jason Gormley walked away from the crash leaving her alongside her fatally injured husband, trapped in their car with the smell of burning. She feared it would go up in flames.

She said: “I could understand somebody being frightened of approaching a vehicle with people badly injured in it, but the very least one would expect the person to get help and eventually apologise.”

Since her husband’s death, she said their home was a quiet place. “Aidan was constantly on the phone making golf arrangements, laughing at golf jokes with his friends.