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A drunk nurse knocked down and killed a teenage cyclist on her way to work – then drove on without stopping to help.

Heather Butler, 67, was more than twice the legal limit when she hit Sam Brown, 15, in her Audi A4 and kept going to her care home job, where the boy’s mum also worked.

She clipped the teenager’s back wheel and he was thrown over her car bonnet and windscreen and was left dying on a grass verge.

Butler – who had downed three gin and tonics and a glass of wine before setting off to work – only pulled over 250 yards further on to toss his tangled bike aside after it became stuck to her car.

She also hit Sam’s friend Luke Wheel, who suffered a fractured shoulder.

But Butler only mentioned the accident after arriving at the Old School House nursing home, at Gilberdyke, near Hull.

After she was jailed for five years at Hull crown court, Sam’s heartbroken mother Tracey, 42, blasted the sentence and called for a change in the law.

She said: “The sentence is disgusting, and it’s us that will have the life sentence. The law and the sentences handed out need to be changed.

“It’s like a slap on the wrist.”

She added: “Butler should have known better as a nurse. She showed no remorse at court.

"It’s like a spit in the face, the trauma she has caused for this family.

“She has wrecked our lives. ­Whatever the sentence, it won’t be enough. The pain is unbearable.”

(Image: Ben Lack)

Sam leaves behind two sisters Lauren, 18, Molly, 15, and his 10-year-old brother Ben.

His roofer dad Stephen, 45, said: “As soon as Butler stepped into that car, it was an accident waiting to happen.

"She was 50 times more accident prone. She was asking for trouble.”

Luke, 15, and Sam were cycling home to Gilberdyke, East Yorkshire, at 9pm on September 6 when they were hit.

At work, Butler told staff she thought she had hit a cyclist and two colleagues rushed to the scene where they found drivers trying to save Sam.

He died of head injuries.

Butler was unsteady on her feet and one colleague smelled alcohol on her breath.

Her lawyer Paul Genney said Butler had been driving for 42 years, and added: “She appreciates she should never have driven.”

Judge Mark Bury said: “You did not, as a nurse, go back to try to assist the person you knew full well you had knocked down.”

Butler will serve a minimum of two years and eight months.

She pleaded guilty to causing Sam’s death while drink-driving and failing to stop and report the accident on the B1230 in Eastrington.

She was also banned from driving for five years.