A WOMAN died after a getaway car taking armed robbers away from the

scene of the crime crashed into the vehicle in which she was travelling,

the High Court in Glasgow was told yesterday.

Mrs Edith Spencer, 63,

of Invercanny Drive, Drumchapel, suffered multiple fractures. She died

11 days later.

James Horner, 28, of Fettercairn Avenue, Drumchapel, admitted causing

her death by driving dangerously and at excessive speed and colliding

with the car in which she was a rear seat passenger on September 2 last

year.

He and his brother Desmond, of Oran Place, Maryhill, Glasgow, admitted

that with another man that day they held up a licensed grocer at Moraine

Drive, Drumchapel, threatened staff with imitation handguns, and robbed

them of cash, cigarettes, and spirits.

The Judge, Lord Kirkwood, who was told that James Horner was also a

disqualified driver, jailed him for a total of eight years and banned

him from driving for the same period. Desmond Horner, 20, a first

offender, was sent to a young offenders' institution for 18 months.

Mr Ian Bonomy, QC, prosecuting, said James Horner and another man

entered the shop and produced imitation handguns. They made off with

bags of money, cigarettes, and spirits.

Desmond Horner drove them at high speed through streets in Drumchapel.

The court was told that after James Horner took over the wheel of the

car it collided with a bus and then crashed into the car in which Mrs

Spencer was a passenger.