Singer Doherty’s manager jailed

The manager of musician Pete Doherty has been jailed for a year for dangerous driving after a hit-and-run in which a man was critically injured.

Chris Corder, 42, of Hadleigh, remains in a coma after being run over in the town on 27 September. He was delivering church newsletters at the time.

At Ipswich Crown Court, Andrew Boyd, 42, of London, was jailed after earlier admitting dangerous driving.

He had also admitted failing to stop at an accident scene.

‘Comforting a child’

At a hearing in January Mr Boyd’s barrister, Chris Henley, said the accident happened when Mr Boyd tried to comfort a four-year-old child who was sitting in the back seat of a Daimler car.

"He must have momentarily taken his eye off the road and at that moment Mr Corder must have stepped onto the road and very unfortunately the collision took place," said Mr Henley.

"The instinctive reaction of Mr Boyd was not to stop; he should have and he recognises that.

"The prosecution accept that the dangerous driving is him leaving the scene." </p

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