{"id":502365,"date":"2026-06-30T07:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/502365\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:47:11","slug":"singer-ragnbone-mans-wife-spared-jail-term-after-crashing-into-car-carrying-mum-and-three-children-while-rushing-to-pick-kids-up-from-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/502365\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Rag\u2018n\u2019Bone Man\u2019s wife spared jail term after crashing into car carrying mum and three children while rushing to pick kids up from school"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe wife of British singer Rag\u2018n\u2019Bone Man crashed into a car with a woman and three children, injuring the four occupants. Photo \/ Sussex Police<\/p>\n

The driver of the Ford, Samantha Keen, spoke in court about how the crash left her injured and temporarily unable to look after her children. The woman, whose husband and father of the three children had died of cancer a year earlier, also spoke about how the event still affects the family, three years on.<\/p>\n

Keen suffered a broken ankle, cuts to her face and head, and damage to her right hip. The three children suffered cuts and bruises to their faces, heads, arms and legs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey thought they were going to lose their only living parent,\u201d she said in her victim impact statement. \u201cWe had to cancel our holiday, losing our deposits. I was too injured to look after the children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the crash, the children required counselling for post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n

Zoe Graham, who is married to Rory Graham, known as Rag\u2018n\u2019Bone Man, told the court that trauma from her past with an abusive ex made her feel anxious about being late for the school run.<\/p>\n

\"ZoeZoe Bearsdall (left) and Rag’n’Bone Man attend the Pride of Britain Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London in October 2025. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

She broke down in tears as she told the judge that domestic abuse from an ex-partner who had deliberately made her late to collect her children had left her with severe anxiety about being late.<\/p>\n

She also said her children suffered from anxiety.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a little bit late to pick up my boys, and they suffer from anxiety. I indicated and I hit her. I\u2019ve never hurt anyone in my life and never would. I feel so sorry because my children went through anxiety as well,\u201d she told the court.<\/p>\n

Judge David Rennie handed a suspended sentence, acknowledging the events that led to the crash had been \u201cwholly out of character\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll this was avoidable if you had driven in the way you were supposed to. I\u2019m going to put you out of your misery \u2013 you\u2019re not going to prison today,” he told Graham.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a horrendous case where two families have been left traumatised by events,\u201d the judge added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wife of British singer Rag\u2018n\u2019Bone Man crashed into a car with a woman and three children, injuring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,95,9526,1558,14801,3944,1875,1061,15979,20496,71,19724,42,6793,296,1334,1899,16122,6178,2721,43,5502,15407,250763,29544,6417,14732,4062,5763,4625,84631,18834,1335,1529,61,40,38,41,39,810,6845,6123,1842],"class_list":["post-502365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-and","tag-another","tag-been","tag-british","tag-car","tag-carrying","tag-children","tag-crashed","tag-crashing","tag-from","tag-given","tag-headlines","tag-injuring","tag-into","tag-jail","tag-kids","tag-mans","tag-mother","tag-mum","tag-news","tag-partner","tag-pick","tag-ragnbone","tag-range","tag-rover","tag-rushing","tag-school","tag-sentence","tag-singer","tag-spared","tag-suspended","tag-term","tag-three","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-up","tag-vehicle","tag-while","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}