UK Court finds truck driver guilty of killing 8 Indians in UK road accident

London: A truck driver was on Tuesday found guilty of causing the deaths of eight Indians in one of Britain's worst road accidents last year.

Ryszard Masierak, a 31-year-old Polish national, was convicted at the end of a trial at Reading Crown Court. The jury heard that he was two times over the legal drink-drive limit and had stopped in the inside lane of the highway when he was involved in the crash with a minibus



and another truck near Newport Pagnell in southern England on August 26.

He had denied the charges of causing the deaths of Nottingham-based Keralite minibus driver Cyriac Joseph and seven of his passengers - all Indians.

The 52-year-old had been hired to drive his passengers from Nottingham to London to join a European holiday tour group when they met with the fatal accident.