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| Jack death driver given 12 years | |
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| The driver who killed 10-year-old schoolboy Jack Anderson in a hit-and-run incident in Edinburgh has been jailed for 12 years. | |
| Isaac Purcell, 26, admitted culpable homicide after a nine-day trial at the High Court in Glasgow. | |
| A charge of murder was withdrawn after two days of legal debate. | A charge of murder was withdrawn after two days of legal debate. |
| He lodged the plea exactly a year after Jack was knocked down and killed while using a pedestrian crossing on Saughton Road North. | He lodged the plea exactly a year after Jack was knocked down and killed while using a pedestrian crossing on Saughton Road North. |
| Purcell, who has a string of driving convictions, was also banned from driving for life by Lord Uist. | |
| Failed to stop | |
| Purcell had earlier said that he did not see Jack on the crossing as he was overtaking a car. | 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 and said he had failed to stop because he "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. | 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. |
| Jack Anderson died on 5 October 2006 | |
| 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. | 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. |
| Purcell has convictions dating back to 1997 for dangerous driving, one for drink-driving and three for driving while disqualified. | |
| He was also convicted of robbery in 1995. | |
| Advocate-depute Alex Prentice QC said Purcell was understood to be a member of the travelling communities in the Cheshire and Wrexham areas. | |
| He told the court how a massive police operation was launched to track down Purcell after he went on the run following the incident on 5 October last year. | |
| A European Arrest Warrant was obtained and issued to Irish Police in January following a tip-off that Purcell might be there. | |
| But he handed himself in to police voluntarily on 7 March this year. |