Cement truck driver ‘had been reading in his cab moments before he killed cyclist’

A cement lorry driver had been reading from a piece of paper in his cab moments before he ran over and killed a cyclist, a court heard. Interior design student Giovanna Cappiello, 29, was killed by Stephen Hempenstall’s 32-tonne truck as she cycled through Battersea on July 4, 2019. The Mercedes Arco cement mixer lorry was fitted with a range of safety measures, including side scanners and specially adapted mirrors, Inner London Crown Court heard. But Hempenstall, 52, failed to…