A DRINK driver said he 'cannot say sorry enough' in a letter from prison sent to the Flynn family.

David Logan is today starting ten years behind bars after being sentenced for killing a dad and his two children while on a Father's Day walk.

Logan claimed he ‘blacked out at the wheel’ as a result of a coughing fit moments before the crash.

Logan, 48, has been jailed for 10 years and 10 months for causing the deaths of Joshua Flynn, 37, and his children Coby-Jay, 15, and Skylar, 12, on June 21 2020.

The family were walking their Yorkshire Terrier, Troy, in Abbey Road, Dalton, when Logan lost control of his Peugeot 206 convertible and mounted the pavement, colliding with the young family and hitting a tree. 

Logan pleaded guilty to three counts of causing death by dangerous driving, a count of criminal damage in connection with the death of the dog Troy, and a charge of driving over the legal limit of alcohol.

In a letter written from his prison cell, he said: “Emma lost everything on that day in June and I haven’t got the power to change that.

“Not a day goes by without me thinking about that family, a family I didn’t even know. “I can’t say sorry enough. I can’t apologise enough for what happened. I am sorry for hurting so many people.”

Sentencing, Mr Justice Hilliard sentenced Logan to 10 years and 10 months in prison concurrently for each count of causing death by dangerous driving with five months to run concurrently for driving with excess alcohol.