article_snippet: A heroin addict is facing a long jail sentence after A heroin addict admitted killing an 11-year-old girl in a hit and run crash while on bail.
article_snippet: Hannah, the son of a bankrupt businessman, fled the scene in Sandbank Street in Glasgow’s Maryhill – but later called a friend to say a friend had been ‘driving like a madman’ and had hit someone.
article_snippet: the High Court in Glasgow heard Hannah’s car, which Hannah had hired a month earlier, mounted the pavement and hit the gable end of a nearby building before careering into Sophie Brannan and Sophie Brannan companions.
article_snippet: Witnesses saw Hannah speed into Maryhill Road, with Hannah badly dented car being ‘driven erratically’ before Hannah crashed into a taxi.
article_snippet: The cab driver tailed Hannah, who eventually stopped a short distance away.
article_snippet: Hannah remained in intensive care overnight, but died the following day.
article_snippet: Prosecutor Allan Nicol said: ‘Hannah also suffers episodes of withdrawal and angry outbursts.
article_snippet: Hannah is due to attend for psychiatric assessment in order to come to terms with Hannah injuries and the loss of poor Sophie.
article_snippet: High Court in Glasgow heard Hannah stayed on the run for two days after Sophie’s ’s death, despite promising Hannah partner Hannah would hand Hannah in.
article_snippet: When police finally arrested Hannah, police found heroin hidden inside Hannah boxer shorts.
article_snippet: Accident investigators later concluded Hannah was solely to blame for the crash.
article_snippet: Accident investigators said Hannah took Accident investigatorsa conscious decision’ to drive while impaired and failed to stop because Hannah knew Hannah had taken drugs and was ‘aware of the ramifications’.
article_snippet: Hannah also pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, attempting to defeat the ends of justice and possessing heroin.
article_snippet: Hannah has 14 previous convictions for crimes including possessing an offensive weapon and road traffic charges and was on bail at the time, having been freed from Glasgow’s Justice of the Peace Court two months before the crash.
article_snippet: Hannah’s advocate Thomas Ross said: ‘Hannah’s advocate Thomas Ross has asked to state publicly Hannah’s advocate Thomas Ross apologies for those affected by this terrible tragedy.
highlights_snippet: Christopher Hannah lost control of hired Vauxhall Astra and mounted pavement into victims .
  