Illness delays sentencing of Wigan man for serious motoring offences yet again

Jamie Smith, 33, of Atherton Road in Hindley, was due to be sentenced at Bolton Crown Court this month for two counts of dangerous driving and one of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

But in the latest in a series of delays - the most recent caused by the defendant's ill health - the hearing had to be postponed once more.

The judge instructed that sentencing would definitely go ahead on June 22 unless a full medical report was presented that backed a further postponement.

Smith has pleaded guilty to all three charges at earlier hearings.