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A mum-of-three who caused the death of a beloved grandmother while trying to make a phone call while driving has been spared prison. Emma Farrelly had just picked up her daughter from primary school when she pulled out of the High Street in Charing, near Ashford, and into the side of a Ford Focus travelling along the A20. Joyce Wright, 81, who was a passenger in the Ford, suffered serious injuries and died in hospital two weeks later, leaving her family heartbroken. In a police interview following the tragedy, Farrelly, of Woodbrook, Charing, insisted that she had looked both ways before pulli…

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