jrh2002
23-04-2008, 05:15 PM
If this was not so serious I would still be laughing now. There is a chance this nutter will get put in a nut house until shes classed as better :o so could be out in months not years. I personally would give her life mad or not.
BREAKING NEWS: DEATH CRASH WOMAN - 'SATAN WAS DRIVING CAR'
14:22 - 23 April 2008
A woman driver accused of killing of a mother and daughter in a crash as they walked a child to school, claims Satan made her do it, a jury heard.
Gemma Montanaro (41), denies causing the death of Jane Ann Malkin (51), and Nichole Townsend (24), by driving a Vauxhall Astra dangerously on Saffron Lane, Aylestone, on January 30 last year - on the basis she is legally insane.
Montanaro, of Grace Gardens, Aylestone, lost control of her car and ploughed into the mother and daughter at between 60 and 70mph at 8.45am.
She had driven on the wrong side of the road and sped through two sets of red lights before mounting a kerb and hitting the two pedestrians.
The impact killed them instantly, Leicester Crown Court was told.
She got out of her overturned car and fled the scene, later returning to the vicinity, where she asked a staff at the nearby Aylestone Leisure Centre, for help.
She said she had been in an accident and wanted an ambulance to take her to an asylum.
Adrienne Lucking, prosecuting, said she told police: "I wasn't driving. Somebody had their foot on my foot and their hand on my hand. It wasn't me driving. It was Satan."
She claims to have been in the grip of a schizophrenic episode and had sought help the night before at hospital but was sent home and had taken medication.
Mrs Lucking said Montanaro accepted driving the car at the time of the crash but appeared to be blaming the Devil.
She had driven on the wrong side of the road and also went through two sets of red lights at the two junctions before losing control.
Jane was a bookkeeper and bar manager at city centre Italian restaurant, Casa Romano, on Albion Street.
She lived near Saffron Lane with her daughter, Nichole, an English Literature student at DeMontfort University.
They had been walking to school Nichole's seven-year-old daughter when the tragedy happened.
The trial continues.
BREAKING NEWS: DEATH CRASH WOMAN - 'SATAN WAS DRIVING CAR'
14:22 - 23 April 2008
A woman driver accused of killing of a mother and daughter in a crash as they walked a child to school, claims Satan made her do it, a jury heard.
Gemma Montanaro (41), denies causing the death of Jane Ann Malkin (51), and Nichole Townsend (24), by driving a Vauxhall Astra dangerously on Saffron Lane, Aylestone, on January 30 last year - on the basis she is legally insane.
Montanaro, of Grace Gardens, Aylestone, lost control of her car and ploughed into the mother and daughter at between 60 and 70mph at 8.45am.
She had driven on the wrong side of the road and sped through two sets of red lights before mounting a kerb and hitting the two pedestrians.
The impact killed them instantly, Leicester Crown Court was told.
She got out of her overturned car and fled the scene, later returning to the vicinity, where she asked a staff at the nearby Aylestone Leisure Centre, for help.
She said she had been in an accident and wanted an ambulance to take her to an asylum.
Adrienne Lucking, prosecuting, said she told police: "I wasn't driving. Somebody had their foot on my foot and their hand on my hand. It wasn't me driving. It was Satan."
She claims to have been in the grip of a schizophrenic episode and had sought help the night before at hospital but was sent home and had taken medication.
Mrs Lucking said Montanaro accepted driving the car at the time of the crash but appeared to be blaming the Devil.
She had driven on the wrong side of the road and also went through two sets of red lights at the two junctions before losing control.
Jane was a bookkeeper and bar manager at city centre Italian restaurant, Casa Romano, on Albion Street.
She lived near Saffron Lane with her daughter, Nichole, an English Literature student at DeMontfort University.
They had been walking to school Nichole's seven-year-old daughter when the tragedy happened.
The trial continues.