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":368007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-368006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}