Driver drank 12 pints

A man who killed himself and five others by driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, had drunk 12 pints of beer, an inquest was told yesterday. The Huntingdon coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death on James Lafferty, 57; and unlawful killing on Yung Chung Ma, 35; his wife Ka Yin Kwok, 31; their 13- month-old daughter Esther; Timothy Frost, 20; and Sally Fox, 18.