Lawyer ‘killed great grandfather on zebra crossing’

A lawyer ran into and killed a 91-year-old great grandfather on a zebra crossing as she drove to work in the rain, a court heard. Charlotte Griffiths, 26, sent Basant Lal Sharma ‘flying into the air’ when she crashed into him in her blue Ford Fiesta on Wanstead High Street, east London. Mr Sharma had taken three steps across a zebra crossing when Griffiths hit him just after 8.52am on 31 May 2016, it is claimed. A witness saw the…