A MAN has been convicted for the second time of causing the death of a special needs teacher by dangerous driving .

Mother-of-one Serena Buck, 35, died when Andrew Crump played boy racer with a Jaguar XJR, the jury heard.

Crump, 23, chased the Jaguar after it overtook him, forcing him to brake, prosecutor David Richards told the jury.

But he lost control on a bend, spun across the road and collided with Mrs Buck's oncoming Ford Fiesta, he said.

Mrs Buck, of Allweston near Sherborne, died shortly afterwards.

A former pub assistant manager, formerly of the Horton Inn, Horton, but now living in Yeovil, Crump denied the charge.

He told the court he could not remember the Jaguar overtaking him or recall losing control of his Peugeot 306 Turbo diesel and crashing into Mrs Buck's car on the A3030 at North Wootton on March 26 last year.

He said he remembered steering around the bend and "just the turning of the hands and a bang noise and that's it really".

The jury took less than two hours to convict him, only to learn that Crump had already been convicted of the crime once.

He had served three months of a three-year sentence before that conviction was overturned at appeal, the court heard.

Defence barrister Neil Hinton asked Judge John Harrow to adjourn sentencing, pending a psychiatric report.

He said prison staff had raised concerns because Crump's reaction to custody was "more extreme than many people's".

The case was adjourned for six weeks.

First published: October 1