A killer driver, described by police as the ‘drunkest ever seen behind the wheel’, is set to be freed from prison under Labour’s early release scheme.
Malcolm Waite knocked down two pedestrians in July 2022 – a 16-year-old girl, who suffered cuts and bruising, and Fenella Hawes, 20, who died at the scene.
She was carrying home sunflowers for her mother when Waite, now 72, mounted the pavement in an SUV.
He drove on until he hit a road sign and trees a mile away. When officers arrived, they found Waite in the driver’s seat, smelling of alcohol and with a half-drunk bottle
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