Killer of PC Dave Phillips weeps as his widow gives emotional court statement
PC Phillips had two children with his wife Jen at the time of his death
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The teenager who killed PC Dave Phillips in a hit-and-run attack wept as the officer's widow told a court about how his death had affected her life.
Clayton Williams, 19, was found guilty of manslaughter for killing the 34-year-old policeman and sentenced to 20 years in prison at Manchester Crown Court.
The incident happened while Williams was trying to escape from police in a stolen truck on Wallasey Dock Lik Road in Merseyside.
His widow and mother of his two children, Jen Phillips told Williams in court: "I want you to know what you've done to me and my daughters.
"Tears flow as I cry myself to sleep every night. It's soul destroying.
"I have to be strong for the sake of my children. How do I do that, when the children cry for their daddy?"
As Williams wiped away tears, the 29-year-old widow continued: "I and the children are the ones living a life sentence. He not only killed my husband, he's killed something inside me too.
"If hell was real, I'm certainly living in it.
"Even now I close my eyes and pray this is all a horrible nightmare. I'm living my worst nightmare."
Williams will begin his sentence in a Young Offenders' Institution because of his age before being moved to a jail.