{"id":402993,"date":"2026-01-12T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402993\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:18:07","slug":"man-admits-causing-staffordshire-golf-course-crash-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402993\/","title":{"rendered":"Man admits causing Staffordshire golf course crash death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A man has admitted killing a woman hit by a van on a golf course. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Suzanne Cherry, 62, died in hospital in April, four days after she was hit at Aston Wood Golf Club in Staffordshire by a grey Nissan, which had been involved in a police pursuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">John McDonald, 51, admitted causing death by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He is expected to be sentenced later today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">McDonald, from Bloxwich, along with Brett Delaney, 34, from Dudley, and Jonny McDonald, 22, from Walsall, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">All three men had previously denied manslaughter charges last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Cherry, from Aldridge, West Midlands, was killed &#8220;while enjoying what should have been the safest&#8221; of her many hobbies, her husband said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He said his &#8220;beautiful wife&#8221; had an &#8220;amazing and infectious zest for life&#8221; before their &#8220;future together was snatched away in an instant&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has admitted killing a woman hit by a van on a golf course. Suzanne Cherry, 62,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-402993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}