The court heard while some minor defects were found in the lorry, none of them would have contributed to the crash. <\/p>\n
Burns was banned from driving for 150 months and must take an extended re-test before he can get a new licence. <\/p>\n
Senior Crown Prosecutor Joseph Woodyatt said: “Burns has provided no explanation whatsoever for his role in the tragedy. Why he failed to brake as he approached the queue of traffic is a mystery.”<\/p>\n
At the time of his death, Greenhalgh’s family said he was “constantly seeking new adventures” and had only married his wife, Hannah, three months before he died.<\/p>\n
“Matt had a passion for life and seized every opportunity that came his way,” his family said.<\/p>\n
“He had already achieved so much in such a short life, with so much more planned.”<\/p>\n
“We are lost without you. You are forever in our hearts.”<\/p>\n
Fernandes’s family said he was “living his best life” and they were grateful he had managed to achieve his childhood dream.<\/p>\n
“Our darling boy was a loving son, grandson, nephew and cousin. He is the light of our lives and always will be,” they said. <\/p>\n
Ryanair said it would install a plaque bearing both their names at its East Midlands Training Centre.<\/p>\n
The airline also said it planned to introduce the ‘Matt Greenhalgh and Jamie Fernandes Memorial Award’ which will be presented to the top-performing cadet each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The court heard while some minor defects were found in the lorry, none of them would have contributed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-693765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115889433712091009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}