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Former college lecturer jailed for six years over fatal drink-drive crash
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Sophie Hynd, a 33-year-old former computer animation lecturer, has been sentenced to six years in prison and banned from driving for 10 years after pleading guilty to causing the deaths of Jatinder Kaur and Satwant Singh in a head-on drink-driving crash in Cluny, Fife.
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- Sophie Hynd admitted to killing husband and wife Jatinder Kaur (48) and Satwant Singh (64) in a head-on collision last year.
- Hynd had been drinking on-and-off for nine hours at a work Christmas party before driving her Nissan Qashqai.
- The victims, who owned a grocery store in Kirkcaldy, were making deliveries with their 19-year-old daughter in the car at the time of the crash.
- Kaur was pronounced dead at the scene, while Singh passed away in hospital two days later.
- Judge Michael O'Grady KC sentenced Hynd at the High Court in Edinburgh to six years in prison and a 10-year driving ban.