Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Crash death mum leaves ‘empty lives’
Liverpool fans miss out on win in Genk... after going to Ghent instead
THE husband of a pregnant teacher killed when a Porsche hit her car at 120mph said he and their son’s lives are empty.
Teacher Anna Kirsopplewis, 34, died two weeks before she was due to give birth to their second child.
Pub landlord Ian Barton, 62, lost control of his Porsche Cayenne 4x4 – which has a top speed of 162mph – in the rain.
Dashcam footage showed the Porsche racing “like a rocket” on the wrong side of the A36 near Warminster, Wilts, moments before the crash.
Anna’s husband, Chris Lewis, of Warminster, Wilts, told her inquest yesterday: “Our lives are empty without her. Henry will live life without his mother and brother.”
The inquest at Salisbury Coroner’s Court continues.
TWO dopey Liverpool fans learnt the hard way to always check their spelling after missing their side’s Champions League game because they went to the wrong Belgian city.
Pals Rob and Lee only realised they were in Ghent and not Genk half an hour before Wednesday’s match was due to kick off.
It forced them to watch the Reds’ 4-1 win in an Irish cafe 95 miles from the action, with their £130 rail tickets and £60 match tickets burning holes in their pockets.
Rob, from London, said they were “really embarrassed” and joked: “I think next time we will let someone else book the travel.”
He explained: “We took a taxi and drove past the stadium and said to the driver, ‘We are going to watch Liverpool’, but he didn’t say much. “In hindsight, that should have made us realise.” Lee, from Leicester, and Rob, who didn’t reveal their surnames, only found out when a Ghentsupporting waiter told them during their pre-match meal. They have now been invited by Genk to watch their clash with Ghent in January as VIPS.
AFTER HIS AWAY-DAY BLUNDER