THE family of crash victim Albert Brown spoke of the "indescribable pain" since their loss as the man responsible for his death was jailed for eight and a half years.

Yesterday, at Liverpool Crown Court, Carl Moffatt, 36, of Threadneedle Court, Sutton, was sentenced to eight and a half years after admitting to causing the death of Mr Brown by dangerous driving.

He also pleaded guilty to two offences of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and causing death while driving without insurance.

Retired bookmaker Albert, who was 82, was in the front passenger seat of a Citroen Xsara, which was being driven by son Tim with friend Paul Sutcliffe also in the back after they had been to Bangor races.

Moffatt, who had a cocaine by-product in his system, ploughed a Ford Focus into them.

Mr Brown died instantly after his aortic artery was severed and he suffered multiple chest injuries.

Tim suffered a fractured pelvis, a broken sternum and eight fractured ribs and internal bleeding and Mr Sutcliffe fractured multiple ribs, suffered a collapsed lung and a broken right leg.

In his impact statement Tim said that his dad, a retired bookmaker, had been “fit for his age, intelligent, kind and good man. I know we all say that but he really was.”

“I know as we all get older we know we lost our parents but to lose my father in that unnecessarily violent manner is hard to take.”

Albert's widow, Sheelah Brown, added: “The feelings of loneliness and upset is indescribable."

She described Albert as “a loving caring man who couldn’t do enough for me, nothing was too much trouble. Now all that has gone and I’m left with this terrible void in my life.”

Daughter Alison Johnson said her dad as “the joker of the family, always happy and never had a bad word to say about anyone.”

Judge Robert Trevor-Jones said the statements from the widow and daughter speak of the “inevitable grief, sudden loss of a dearly loved and loving husband and father and understandable inability to come to terms with such a devastating impact, a gap in their lives which has resulted and which continues.

“The ongoing immeasurable sense of loss continues to blight the family.”