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| Hit-and-run child killer detained | Hit-and-run child killer detained |
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| A driver who fled the scene after mounting the pavement and killing an 11-year-old boy has been detained indefinitely in hospital. | A driver who fled the scene after mounting the pavement and killing an 11-year-old boy has been detained indefinitely in hospital. |
| Hannah Saaf, 28, of St Michael's Hill in Kingsdown, Bristol, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving at Bristol Crown Court in September. | Hannah Saaf, 28, of St Michael's Hill in Kingsdown, Bristol, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving at Bristol Crown Court in September. |
| Sam Riddall was killed in May as he walked along a pavement in Westbury-on-Trym on his way home from a church. | Sam Riddall was killed in May as he walked along a pavement in Westbury-on-Trym on his way home from a church. |
| Saaf went on the run for nine days, sparking a huge police manhunt. | Saaf went on the run for nine days, sparking a huge police manhunt. |
| Sleeping rough | |
| She had been travelling at 60mph in a 30mph zone. | She had been travelling at 60mph in a 30mph zone. |
| As judge Simon Darwall-Smith read out the hospital detention order, Bristol University law graduate Saaf broke into tears. | As judge Simon Darwall-Smith read out the hospital detention order, Bristol University law graduate Saaf broke into tears. |
| The court heard Saaf had developed mental health problems after she began smoking cannabis. | The court heard Saaf had developed mental health problems after she began smoking cannabis. |
| Speaking outside the court, Sam's father Martin Riddall said: "In four days time we celebrate Christmas - the first Christmas without our Sam. | |
| "It's going to be very hard indeed because we still miss him very much." | |
| The devout Christian added he would ask God to forgive Saaf for her "terrible" act. | |
| Police say while trying to evade the hugely publicised search, Saaf only slept in a bed once. | |
| Eleven-year-old Sam Riddall was killed while walking home from church | |
| After the fatal crash on Eastfield Road, Saaf was variously spotted in St Paul's, Lodge Causeway, Fishponds and Keynsham. | |
| CCTV footage shows Saaf in Keynsham, near Bristol, on 4 May. | |
| It was when a farmer found her sleeping rough in a tractor shed at Pensford, about two miles south of Bristol, that the search came to an end. | |
| The farmer's 999 call on 10 May started a dramatic police hunt involving a helicopter, dogs, cars and officers, and ended in Saaf's arrest. |