Lucy Barcham has escaped jail (Picture: Archant)

A woman dying from a brain tumour has been spared jail for killing a man in a horrific head-on car crash.

Norwich Crown Court heard Lucy Barham should not have been driving when she killed Chris Fuller, 21, on September 8, 2016.

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Barham, 34, veered onto the wrong side of the A1122 Swaffham Road, Fincham in her Citroen and ploughed into Mr Fuller’s Seat, killing him instantly.

The single mum-of-one admitted causing death by careless driving in November of last year after denying dangerous driving.


She was sentenced to 20 weeks in jail, suspended for 18 months.

Chris Fuller died in the car crash (Picture: Archant)

Barham, of Downham Market, Norfolk, said she could remember nothing of the crash which caused Mr Fuller’s car to go up in flames.



The court was told she failed to declare her medical condition to the DVLA three times.

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Her licence was revoked once the DVLA became aware.

Stephen Spence, prosecuting, said: ‘This defendant ought not to have been driving.

‘There is a duty to inform the DVLA of any medical condition that might affect their ability to drive.’

Barham has a brain tumour (Picture: Archant)

In a victim impact statement parents Shirley and David Fuller said: ‘The whole family are devastated. There are no days where there are no tears.

‘We lost our child but also the hopes, dreams and expectations we had of him. It breaks our hearts we never got to say goodbye.’

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Mr Fuller added: ‘The loss of my son will be haunting me until my dying day.’

Mrs Fuller said: ‘At the funeral I pictured his coffin was not very heavy because there was so little left of him.’

Chris, of Three Holes, near Wisbech, has also left behind his siblings James Fuller, Jada Mystic, Melissa Fuller and Sheryl Fuller.

He had been an organ donor but the damage meant his family were unable to carry out his wishes.

Judge Holt praised the ‘courage and dignity’ of the Fullers.

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The judge told the distraught couple: ‘I am very much aware any words I say can in no way console or compensate for the tragic death and loss of Chris.’

Judge Holt told Barham: ‘You suffer from a malignant, cancerous brain tumour and no future treatment is possible.

‘Your time left to have, nobody knows.’

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