A YEAR FOR EACH LIFE; Fury at death van driver's sentence.

Byline: MAGGIE BARRY

A WIDOW yesterday slammed a 28month jail sentence given to a van driver who killed her husband and four-yearold granddaughter in a horror crash.

Melanie Anderson spoke out as Ian Shennan admitted causing the deaths of Paul Anderson, 48, and little Samantha Carr.

Grieving Melanie, 46, , of Colne, Lancs, said: "I have lost two members of my family and I have got to pick up the pieces now. We just feel that the sentence does not fit the crime.

"Today was meant to be a new beginning and we don't know how long it's going to take now before we can start putting things behind us."

Mrs Anderson, who together with another girl survived the July, 2008, smash, said Shennan should have been jailed for five years.

The crash happened on the A9 in the Scottish Highlands as Mr Anderson was going to the funeral of niece Vicky Pickering, 27, who had died in another car crash. He lost control while towing a caravan trying to avoid Shennan, of Elgin, who was overtaking, the high court in Edinburgh heard.

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CAGED Ian Shennan CARNAGE Crash scene and, inset, Paul & Melanie Anderson and Samantha Carr