Boy, 13, pleads guilty to killing Sheffield grandmother Marcia Grant hit by her own car

Marcia Grant was described as 'warm, loving and dedicated'. Credit: Family handout

A 13-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to killing a grandmother who was hit by her own car.

Marcia Grant, 60, died outside her home in the Greenhill area of Sheffield on 5 April, 2023.

The youngster, who was 12 at the time of the incident and cannot be named, has pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.

The boy had been due to go on trial this week charged with murder, but prosecutors accepted the lesser charge at Sheffield Crown Court today.

He previously admitted a second charge of possession of bladed article, which was specified as a kitchen knife.

Marcia's family described her as "a warm, loving and dedicated wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend and a pillar of her community".

No details of the incident were given in the brief court hearing, where the youngster appeared via video link.

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".

Ben Campbell, defending, had 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".

At Sheffield Crown Court, the judge, Mrs Justice May, said the boy will be sentenced on 1 December.

Det Ch Insp Andrea Bowell said: "Since Marcia’s death, my thoughts have been with her family and friends.

"They have lost a loved one under the most tragic of circumstances and will have to live with the heartbreaking consequences of the events of that evening for the rest of their lives."

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