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A man on drugs reversed into an elderly woman crossing the road and drove off to McDonalds, leaving her lying on the ground.

Callum Wilson opened the door to see what he'd hit but despite seeing the motionless woman - who had been pushing a shopping trolley - he left the scene.

When police caught up with him at the Island Green shopping centre car park in Wrexham , his girlfriend was sitting in the driving seat.

But a drugs test found she was also on cannabis.

Defence solicitor Laura Preston Hayes told Mold crown court Wilson, 21, of Bron Llwyn in Summerfield but currently said to be sofa surfing, said Wilson had gone into Wrexham to meet girlfriend Alexandra Kay Fox, 19, and gave a friend a lift.

The friend got out of the car to get something and Wilson reversed and hit the woman.

Ms Preston said he'd shown genuine remorse, and that when he realised he'd hit the woman, on Regent Street in Wrexham on January 31, the friend had said it was okay so he had driven off.

"He knows that was not good enough. It was his responsibility to check," she said.

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Wilson was banned from driving for three years and received an eight week prison sentence suspended for 18 months after he admitted careless driving, drug driving, failing to stop, failing to report an accident, no insurance and possessing cannabis.

Fox, 19, now living with grandparents in Pen y Maes, Ruthin , admitted being "in charge" of a motor vehicle when over the drug drive limit and no insurance.

The court heard when police arrived and she was told what happened, she became upset.

She was in charge of the car at that stage - although the keys were not in the ignition - and she had 4.7 mg of a cannaboid drug in her system.

Wilson had 2.8 mg - the legal limit being two.

She was fined £120 with £85 costs and she had ten penalty points imposed on her driving licence.

Fox was described as a carer by profession who was off after an accident to her hand.

Wilson described as a man with mental health issues who had recently found employment and who was due to start work with a construction company next week.