‘Mr Magoo’ driver ran over a carpenter

A pensioner who mowed down a joiner when he ‘absent mindedly’ forgot to put his glasses on was jailed for 21 months. Andreas Vassiliou, 75, hit 58-year-old Ibrahim Ahmet at a zebra crossing in Enfield, north London while driving to the shops with his disabled wife. Greek Cypriot Vassiliou was only driving at an average speed of 24mph, but failed to brake at all before hitting the victim in Hertford Road on 28 October 2015. Mr Ahmet would have been…