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A 26-year-man has plead guilty to killing 10-year-old Jack Anderson in a hit and run incident in Edinburgh last year. A driver has admitted killing 10-year-old Jack Anderson in a hit and run incident in Edinburgh last year.
Isaac Purcell admitted the charge of culpable homicide at the High Court in Glasgow. Isaac Purcell, 26, who has a string of driving convictions, admitted culpable homicide after a nine-day trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
Following two days of legal debate, an original charge of a murder was withdrawn. A charge of murder was withdrawn after two days of legal debate.
Jack was knocked down and killed while crossing Saughton Road North in Edinburgh on 5 October, 2006. He lodged the plea exactly a year after Jack was knocked down and killed while using a pedestrian crossing on Saughton Road North.
Scared and 'panicked'
Purcell had earlier said that he did not see Jack on the crossing as he was overtaking a car.
He told the court how he deliberately jumped red lights to escape a police car.
He said he failed to stop because he was scared and "panicked".
Purcell said that five months after Jack's death he wrote a letter to the schoolboy's parents confessing that he was the driver of the car.
He said that the reply he received from Jack's parents, Michael and Yvonne, convinced him to hand himself in to the police. He did so in March this year after going to see his children.