{"id":405805,"date":"2026-01-13T03:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/405805\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T03:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:38:17","slug":"van-driver-admits-to-killing-mother-of-three-on-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/405805\/","title":{"rendered":"Van driver admits to killing mother-of-three on golf course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man has admitted to killing a woman who was hit by a van on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/golf-course\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:golf course;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">golf course<\/a> in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dash-cam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/footage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:footage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">footage<\/a> shows the van, driven by John McDonald, 52, leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">police<\/a> on a high-speed chase before driving onto the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:golf;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">golf<\/a> course at Aston Wood Golf Club in Shenstone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mother-of-three Suzanne Cherry, 62, was struck by the van while playing golf with her husband on 11 April and <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/husband-watched-horror-van-killed-125252083.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham four days later.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham four days later.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McDonald admitted causing death by dangerous driving and is being sentenced at Worcester Crown Court, alongside his passengers: his son, Johnny McDonald, 23, and Brett Delaney, 35, who, alongside John McDonald, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud by carrying out dodgy roof work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has admitted to killing a woman who was hit by a van on a golf course&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[170592,171101,49,48,171102,622,18692,170595,29344,82,170593],"class_list":["post-405805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-aston-wood-golf-club","tag-brett-delaney","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-death-by-dangerous-driving","tag-golf","tag-golf-course","tag-john-mcdonald","tag-playing-golf","tag-sports","tag-suzanne-cherry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}