Cement mixer driver denies killing cyclist

A construction boss has today (fri) denied killing an award-winning design student by knocking her off her bike with his cement lorry. Stephen Hempenstall, 49, is accused of causing the death of Giovanna Cappiello in a crash at Wandsworth Road, Battersea, on July 4 last year. The 29-year-old University of the Arts in London student was two weeks from graduating at the time of her death after being the first in her course to achieve A+ grades in theory and…