{"id":530565,"date":"2026-04-14T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530565\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:25:08","slug":"flintshire-mum-jailed-after-cover-up-for-hit-and-run-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530565\/","title":{"rendered":"Flintshire mum jailed after cover-up for hit-and-run son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arlo was left with multiple injuries after the hit-and-run on Central Drive in Shotton, Flintshire, on 11 September 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the crash, Hunt drove Longhurst to York, and Haran burned her brother&#8217;s clothes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Longhurst was arrested in York and admitted dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crl42556w06o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trial at Mold Crown Court<\/a>, Longhurst, Hunt and Follows were all found guilty of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Follows was sentenced to 26 months in prison; Hunt was sentenced to 21-months; and Haran to nine months in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judge told Follows she &#8220;organised all this&#8221;, despite a variety of factors suggesting she should take &#8220;a different course of action&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said Follows and Hunt had shown &#8220;no remorse&#8221; for Arlo being seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No sentence I can pass can correct the terrible wrong that was done to this little boy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arlo was left with multiple injuries after the hit-and-run on Central Drive in Shotton, Flintshire, on 11 September&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-530565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530565","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=530565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}