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Heartbroken farming family pay tribute to son following fatal collision with drug-driver

Yorkshire farmer Richard Sunter died on October 7 2023 when an Iveco HGV collided with his Ford Ranger pick-up towing an unloaded small livestock trailer that was heading towards Cowan Bridge

Chris Brayford
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A tribute from Richard Sunter's mother said: "When Richard died suddenly, our lives changed in the most unimaginable way. In one moment, everything we knew, everything we relied on, everything that made our family whole, was taken from us. Since the knock on the door, we have lived in a world that no longer makes sense. We do not know who we are anymore or how to fit into a life that no longer has him in it."
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A tribute from Richard Sunter's mother said: "When Richard died suddenly, our lives changed in the most unimaginable way. In one moment, everything we knew, everything we relied on, everything that made our family whole, was taken from us. Since the knock on the door, we have lived in a world that no longer makes sense. We do not know who we are anymore or how to fit into a life that no longer has him in it."

A drug-driver has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after being involved in a collision which killed a farmer. John Robertson, of Springbank Crescent in Glasgow, was sentenced at Bradford...

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