Pensioner jailed for killing three-year-old girl on pedestrian crossing

A Sutton Coldfield pensioner has been sentenced to four years in prison after knocking down and killing a three-year-old girl as she walked over a pedestrian crossing last summer.John Place, aged 72, was handed the sentence at Birmingham Crown Court today (March 20) after he hit Poppy-Arabella Rose Clarke with his Volkswagen Passat as she pushed her bike across Chester Road in Boldmere on 6 July. The traffic lights were on red at the time and the green man was flashing for pedestrians. Popp