Drink driver who killed man and injured teenager is jailed

A drink-driver who returned to the pub after killing a man and leaving a teenager severely injured when he crashed into passengers at an Aberdeen bus stop has been jailed for more than seven years.

Judge Lord Mulholland said Martin Henderson was “driving like a maniac” when he lost control of his speeding car while overtaking and crashed into people waiting for a bus in Aberdeen in November last year.

He jailed Henderson, 30, for seven years and four months and banned him for driving for almost 24 years.

Father-of-three and retired bus driver Allan Forbes, 70, had been on his way to meet his son when he was thrown into a nearby car park by the force of the crash.

He sustained “catastrophic, unsurvivable injuries” and died at the scene on Inverurie Road in Bucksburn, a court heard.

Chloe Donaldson, then 18, who was waiting a short distance from the bus shelter, was severely injured.

Henderson fled the scene for a nearby pub, where he ordered a pint and then returned home to Inverurie in Aberdeenshire.

He then told his partner he had “f ***** up”, opened two cans of lager, reported his car as stolen to the police and fell asleep on the couch.

Sentencing Henderson at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday, Lord Mulholland told him: “You were under the influence of alcohol when driving like a maniac.

“Notwithstanding the chaos, serious injury and loss of life that you caused, you only thought of yourself. Instead of helping the poor people you had harmed you fled to a nearby pub, where you consumed more alcohol and went home whereyouconsumedyetmore alcohol.”

Lord Mulholland told Henderson reporting his car had been stolen was “despicable”.

He praised the Forbes family for their “enduring bravery and human spirit in the face of the misery”.