'It should be to your eternal shame that you left the victim in the road'

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A man without a driving licence or insurance made a ‘foolish and criminal’ decision to get behind the wheel of his partner’s car - before fleeing after hitting a nurse.

Cameron Rogers, 26, lost control of the vehicle before mounting the pavement and smashing into a lamppost in Wythenshawe . A court heard he hit a mental health nurse walking home from work.

Handing him a suspended sentence, a judge told Rogers: “It should be to your eternal shame that you left the victim of your behaviour in the road.”

Manchester Crown Court heard the nurse was walking home from a ‘tiring and hard shift of difficult work’ at 10.30pm on January 6, 2023. Before he crossed the road at the junction with Poundswick Land and Gladeside Road, he looked both ways.

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