Latvian jailed after drunken crash killed grandfather

A Latvian motorist, who was drinking at the wheel, driving on the wrong side of the road and using his mobile phone, has been jailed for nine years after killing a grandfather.

Romans Krilovs, 41, had been in the UK for three months when he smashed head on into greengrocer, Neville Bogg, 61, as he returned home to Sibsey, Lincolnshire, from a Father’s Day trip to a concert with his daughter.

Mr Bogg, a father of three and grandfather of two, died at the scene, while his daughter, Kerry Bamforth, a 31-year-old teacher, was left with catastrophic and life-changing injuries.

Police discovered an open bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey in the footwell of Krilovs’s Volvo car and said he was “stinking of alcohol”.