Man jailed after running down top rally driver

A man who left a rally driver with life-changing injuries in a hit-and-run incident in Inverness has been jailed for almost four years.

Steve Fraser, 35, had been socialising after the Snowman Rally when he was knocked down on Friar’s Bridge on 19 February last year. He sustained broken bones and a liver injury.

Driver Andrei Sinzieanu, 26, was drunk at the time and disqualified from driving.

Sinzieanu was sentenced at Inverness Sheriff Court yesterday. He was jailed for 45 months and has been banned from driving for six years.

PERTH AND KINROSS