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Driver who killed family is jailed

A lorry driver has been jailed for three years and nine months for killing a Staffordshire family of four when he fell asleep at the wheel.

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A lorry driver has been jailed for three years and nine months for killing a Staffordshire family of four when he fell asleep at the wheel.

Ian King, 61, who has a condition that causes drowsiness, had been found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving in December.

Jurors heard he hit a line of cars on the A34 near Bicester, Oxfordshire, on 31 July 2006.

Lichfield residents Malcolm Dowling, 46, wife Janice, 42, and sons Richard, 16, and George, 11, were killed.

The family, of Brownsfield Road, were on their way home from a holiday in Brittany in France.

King, of Groby, Leics, was found guilty of four counts of causing death by dangerous driving.

He was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Friday.

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