Detective Constable Laura Cleary, from North Yorkshire Police’s Major Collision Investigation Team, said: “Waugh claimed during police interview that she had not seen Mr Morris and even suggested that he must have swerved out in front of her car.
Soldier ‘was on Instagram’ when she killed cyclist in horror crash after sending EIGHTEEN messages from behind wheel A SERVING British Army soldier who killed a cyclist while distracted by her phone has been jailed for six years and eight months.
Waugh, a soldier with the Royal Logistics Corps, had been driving home from Alanbrooke Barracks when she ploughed into Mr Morris on the A6055 Leeming Lane near Kirklington on June 28, 2023.
Sophie Waugh, 31, was behind the wheel when she smashed into 71-year-old Ian Morris, a much-loved husband, father, and grandfather, on a North Yorkshire road.
Teesside Crown Court heard how Waugh had sent 18 messages and locked and unlocked her phone ten times while driving—just moments before the deadly collision.
