Coach driver in court over deaths

The crash happened on the M4/M25 slip road

A coach driver has appeared in court charged with the deaths of three people who were killed in a crash on the M25 near Heathrow Airport.

Philip Rooney, 48, from Lanarkshire, faces three counts of causing death by dangerous driving.

The London-to-Aberdeen National Express coach overturned on the M4/M25 slip road on 3 January. Two people died soon afterwards and a third died on 1 July.

Mr Rooney was granted unconditional bail by Reading magistrates.

He is due to appear at Reading Crown Court on 8 November.

Christina Toner, 76, from Dundee, and 30-year-old Yi Di Lin, a Chinese national, died in the crash.

John Carruthers, 78, of Chertsey, Surrey, died six months later in hospital.