– Grieving widower Ralph Blackman

Kilmarnock. Despite one hand still on the steering wheel, Shields can be clearly seen not looking at the road for 18 seconds before he crashed in to Yvonne’s Toyota Yaris.

The tragedy happened on the A75 near Lockerbie at 8.30am on February 8, 2017.

The Sunday Post previously revealed how charity worker Yvonne’s family watched over her for two weeks in hospital before making the harrowing decision to switch off her life support machine.

They attended each court appearance related to the case, and were hoping to move on following Shields’ sentence, but the latest developments have only made things worse, Ralph said. Ralph, who was married to Yvonne for 38 years, said: “This has opened everything up again for us.

“We thought it was all over after the sentencing, but now we have to go through all of this again and wait until the appeal is finished.

“That man murdered my wife, and said he was sorry. He obviously is not.

“Maybe it was just said in court to make him look better, and he didn’t mean any of it. He should be ashamed of himself and what he did.”

Shields, who had a previous conviction for speeding before the tragedy, wept in court as he was sentenced.

His lawyer Euan Cameron said he could not comment on his client’s case as he did not have permission to discuss it.