remorseful

Ms Griffiths said: "I know … I am so remorseful."

A defence lawyer described it as “a very sad case” where the defendant has been “extremely remorseful.”

The defence lawyer stated: "He is highly remorseful and described his own actions as - the word is repeated in the pre-sentence report - monstrous."

Rag Chand, mitigating, said the defendant was "desperately remorseful" for what he had done and it had been a "colossal collapse of common sense and reason".

Defending, Andrew Taylor said it was a "tragic case" and Perkins had been "remorseful since the moment of that collision".