The moment police arrested the ' drunkest driver they’d ever seen', after he killed a student when he mounted the pavement in his SUV, was captured on camera.
Malcom Waite was jailed for eight years after he mounted the pavement when travelling at speed and hit two pedestrians - a teenage girl and 20-year-old Fenella Hawes, who died.
The 68-year-old from Hoveton, Norfolk, was described as ‘the drunkest person I have ever seen’ by arresting office PC Callum Walchester.
Fenella had been carrying flowers for her mother when she was killed, LancsLive reported.
The footage from his bodycam was released after the sentencing on Friday at Norwich Crown Court, for the incident that happened shortly before 4.30pm on Sunday, July 31 along the A149 Wayford Road.
PC Walchester said: “I’ve been a PC for 10 years and worked in roads policing for almost six years, and he was the drunkest person I have ever seen behind the wheel of a car.”
The court heard how Waite didn’t stop his car, a Lexus RX SUV, after hitting Fenella and the teenage girl but instead continued along the A149 for another mile.
His car only eventually stopped when he smashed into a road sign, trees and shrubbery on the verge of the road.
Officers found Waite sitting in the driver’s seat, stinking of alcohol, where he refused to provide a breath test.
He was arrested and taken to the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston to be assessed.
Waite was also disqualified from driving for another seven years and told he must take a compulsory driving before he can drive again.
While in custody at Great Yarmouth Police Investigation Centre, approximately four hours after driving into Fenella and the teenage girl, he was recorded as having 120 micrograms of alcohol in his breath.
Officers calculated this would have been approximately 158 micrograms if taken at the roadside after the crash. The legal limit is 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres.
The police investigation found that Waite’s vehicle was not faulty, and the weather and road conditions were clear and fine.
During police interviews, he answered no comment to every question.
In her victim personal statement, Fenella’s mother Margaret said: “Every day I sob, when I wake up, throughout the day at random times with seemingly no reason and when I go to bed at night. I picture her walking along, so happy carrying sunflowers for me and then being hit by the car.
“I sob because I will never see Fenella again, I will never see her radiant smile or hear her laugh, I will never talk with her about her day or about her plans for the future, I will never help cheer her up when she is sad or gossip with her, I will never go on long walks with her again … I will never be able to sit with her in front of our fire … it will never be the same again.
“I sob for the future that she doesn't have because a drunken man chose to get into a car, knowing that this was a weapon that could kill someone, and indeed it did it killed my 20-year-old daughter.
“She was a young adult beginning her life and her bright future was taken out in a few seconds because of someone who did not think or did not care. I sob because she was so happy: she was so lovely inside and out she was so alive and now she isn't here, and never will be again. I never had a chance to say goodbye.”
Following the sentencing, Detective Inspector David McCormack, of the Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: "This is a tragedy, and it was wholly avoidable. I implore anyone who thinks it is okay to have a drink and then drive, please remember the heart-breaking and devastating consequences of drink-driving so evident in this case. Waite’s decision to drink and drive has changed lives forever.
“The teenage girl who, together with Fenella, was just walking home from work that day is traumatised by what has happened. Waite will have to live the rest of his life in the knowledge he has taken the life of a remarkable young woman who had so much to offer and lots she wanted to achieve. He has caused so much pain to so many people.”
