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NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- An epileptic driver for a private sanitation company in New York has been sentenced to at least 20 years for running over a British couple.
Auvryn Scarlett, 54, apologized during Wednesday's hearing for killing Jackie Timmons and Andrew Hardie in February 2008, the New York Daily News reported. He begged for a shorter sentence, but State Supreme Court Justice Richard Carruthers gave him 20 years to life.
The judge said Scarlett, by not reporting his epilepsy when he began working as a driver a decade ago and by failing to take his medication for two weeks before the fatal crash was responsible for the couple's deaths, the New York Post said.
"You turned yourself into a time bomb ready to explode at any moment on the streets of New York, which is exactly what happened," Carruthers said.
The couple, both 47, had come to New York from their home in Yeovil in Somerset for a romantic interlude over Valentine's Day. They were cut down by Scarlett's truck 100 feet from their hotel near Penn Station, while another pedestrian had his legs broken.
A jury convicted Scarlett last month.
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