Boy, 13, who ran over gran and told cops ‘I got my first kill’ locked up for two years

A 13-year-old boy has been jailed for killing a gran by running her over with her own car on her driveway. The teen, who cannot be named, has today been sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court to two years in prison, having previously pleaded guilty to causing the death of 60-year-old grandmother Marcia Grant by dangerous driving. The court had previously heard that Ms Grant’s husband Delroy had seen his wife go under the car.

During sentencing the judge was told Delroy Grant was left with “hole in his heart that will never heal”. The heartbroken husband desperately broke the car window to drag the youngster from behind the wheel. The court was shown CCTV of Ms Grant standing behind her car before she was mowed down.

She was killed after she was trapped under her Honda Accord which was reversed over her at speed outside her home in Sheffield in April. The court heard that the boy, who was just 12 at the time of the horrific incident, told police “looks like I got my first kill” as they arrested him at the scene. The boy was set to go on trial in October accused of Ms Grant’s murder, but he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge and this was accepted by prosecutors.

Today he wore a black suit with white shirt and black tie. During a previous court hearing, where the youngster had denied the charges he was seen leaning back in his chair, putting his hands behind his head and looking up at the journalists and police officers sitting in the public gallery.

Police outside her home in Sheffield (MEN Media)

At one point he yawned and was also told by one of the officers accompanying him to take his feet down from the front wall of the dock. The court heard police and paramedics were called to an incident outside Mrs Grant’s house on Hemper Lane, Greenhill, on April 5, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. No details of the incident were given in the brief court hearing.

But, when he first appeared before court in April, prosecutor Gary Crothers told Sheffield Youth Court that police at the scene noted that the boy said “Is she dead?”, “Looks like I got my first kill?”, and “It was an accident, I swear.” At an earlier hearing, Ben Campbell, defending, said the issue in relation to these comments was “what you can infer from them in all the circumstances”. Mr Crothers told the youth court: “At around 7pm on the evening in question this defendant is seen on CCTV attempting to take Mrs Grant’s car.

Mrs Grant tries to stop him by going behind the car. “On CCTV, the vehicle is driven slightly erratically at this time and it does come to a stop. Mrs Grant positions herself behind the vehicle.

The vehicle reverses, causing her to fall on her back and her head impacts with the ground. She was trapped under the vehicle, her husband tried to break the window of the car to get the defendant out of the car.” The prosecutor said the vehicle then reversed “at some speed causing the catastrophic injuries to Mrs Grant”.

He said that she was pronounced dead at the scene just after 7.30pm by attending paramedics. The district crown prosecutor for Yorkshire and Humberside, Malcolm Christy, said: “The death of Marcia Grant was a tragedy. The senseless and dangerous actions of the defendant have left her family and friends devastated.”

Mr Christy explained that the defendant was initially charged with murder using the Crown Prosecution Service’s “threshold test” but, following further investigations including a reconstruction of the scene, it was concluded that “there was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction for that offence”. Ms Grant’s daughter Gemma was left shaking and wiping away tears as she addressed the court about the loss of their “rock” who just wanted to “hug the world”, during the sentencing hearing.

Floral tributes left for Marcia Grant (PA)

She said: “The one person who could have guided us through a trauma and tragedy like this isn’t here. Physically and mentally the events have taken a real toll.

Delroy’s mental health is severely impacted, not just by the loss of his wife but the loss of days to come with his family, his Marce.” She said he had started smoking again, 10 years after quitting. She added: “For months Delroy couldn’t stop shaking and still experiences rapid heartbeats and flashbacks of trying to get mum out from under the car, feelings of helplessness, anger and guilt so strong that he could not save his wife.

“And he re-experiences this over and over again. I have MS and as a result of the stress and anger I feel I have relapsed. I am constantly anxious to the point of not being able to function.” She said the “additional stress” had “impacted my ability to walk”.

Her mum, she said, had a “fierce ambition to love, comfort and bring joy to anyone and everyone she met. “She wanted to pull the world into a hug, lend a hand and raise the spirits of anyone facing adversity…I get frequent flashbacks to the sight of my mum pinned under the car, of the fire service dragging her body from under the car, of seeing her misshapen, unfamiliar and badly damaged body lying in the coroner’s office as I am asked to identify her.” Her son Shaun Grant told of his horror of his dad having to witness the whole ordeal of “1500 kg of weight rolling over the love of his life at speed.

Crushing her instantly. I also came to find out that my dad pleaded with the perpetrator not to do it. He begged him ‘don’t touch anything’ he said ‘Marcia is back there’.

“Yet with complete disregard for my dad’s pleas the perpetrator placed the car into reverse and put his foot on the gas and in these moments he shattered our family to pieces.”

Shaun added: “When he steps out onto his driveway and gets in his car, never will there be a moment where he doesn’t relive the tragic events that’ve been inflicted on us by this remorseless individual.”