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Ralph Fairhurst: Edinburgh hit-and-run driver who sent pedestrian more than 10m in the air jailed

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Ralph Fairhurst , 26 , was driving more than twice the 20mph speed limit when he struck Kyle Middlemas .

Mr Middlemas was thrown 10m-20 m in the air in the collision and died in hospital 10 days later .

Fairhurst fled the scene of the crash in his Vauxhall Astra but was traced by Police Scotland officers later that day .

He pleaded guilty to causing death by driving dangerously by travelling at excessive speed.

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