Boy, 12, killed foster mother with her car

Family hits out at two-year sentence

- LUCY THORNTON

THE family of a woman killed by a 12-year-old boy when he reversed over her in her own car has said they feel let down after he was given two years in custody.

The boy was wearing a balaclava and was armed with a kitchen knife when he drove the Honda Civic and knocked 60-year-old foster carer Marcia Grant unconscious to the floor.

As Marcia's husband Delroy begged him to stop, the boy reversed "at speed", crushing her to death.

A charge of murder was dropped when the prosecution accepted it was a "bad accident".

In a statement after the sentencing hearing yesterday, Marcia's family said: "We feel completely let down by the Crown Prosecution Service.