TikTok fantasist jailed after killing pensioner in car crash

Leigh Sutherland, posed online as a lawyer and police officer, fled the scene and denied he was involved.

The “absolute heart of our family and our community, we miss her every day”.

That’s how the family of Margaret Allan described her, as the man who killed her in a car crash was jailed for nine years.

The 77-year-old was driving in Cumbernauld when Leigh Sutherland, a fantasist who posed online as a lawyer and police officer, hit her in a car with damaged brakes, before fleeing and denying he was involved.

He’d been banned from driving just a week before

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Last updated Jan 9th, 2026 at 19:26

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