Jon-Paul Caruana has been jailed for three years
Prosecutor Gavin Howie described how Emily and her grandmother Dorothy Simpson Wheeler had been dropped off on Monton Road by a family friend on 10 November 2018.
Mr Howie said the impact ‘thrust’ Emily into the air. The Corsa smashed into a wall, rolled over and hit the youngster a second time.Emily was on her way to see the Trafford Center Christmas lights when she was killed The court heard Caruana had been ‘distracted and in a rush’ to collect a friend on his way to work that morning.
He told Caruana: ‘It seems to me instead of reducing your speed significantly you sounded your horn as a warning and you swerved to your left.
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