Ryanair flight attendant was on her way home after trip abroad... then tragedy struck

A Ryanair flight attendant crossing the road after her shift was killed by a dangerous driver who sent a one-word text message seconds before the horror crash.

Kieran Cooney, 31, hit Cinzia Ceravolo, 36, while driving a Ford Focus. She died on Friday, August 26 2022, four days after the crash.

The Ryanair cabin crew member was returning home after two days away with work and had arrived back into Liverpool John Lennon Airport on a flight from Dublin shortly after 11.15pm on Monday, August 22, 2022, the Liverpool Echo reports.

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Liverpool Crown Court heard on Thursday, December 14, that Cooney was travelling on Hale Road to go back to his partner's house when he hit Ms Ceravolo as she crossed the road. Emergency services arrived at the scene and officers described Cooney as being in a "distressed state" and "pacing".

Italian national Ms Ceravolo was rushed to Aintree Hospital and then transferred to the Walton Centre where she later died from multiple injuries. At the scene Cooney was tested for drugs where it was found he had metabolite of cocaine in his system and was over the limit.

Henry Riding, prosecuting, told the court Cooney had "taken a line of cocaine" at a Coldplay concert in London on the Saturday before the incident. However a fitness drug test, designed to reflect zero tolerance, showed the drugs did not impair the 31-year-old's driving.

However, an investigation found the dad-of-one had used his phone seconds before he hit Ms Ceravolo. Moments before the crash, Cooney had received two text messages from his partner, one