A Southport dad has denied sending nuisance messages to the mum of the driver of a car in a horror crash which killed his son.
Frazer McCarthy, 21, was in the passenger seat of a red Ford Focus driven by 24-year-old James Walmsley when it collided with a Nissan Qashqai on Formby bypass in May 2012.
Frazer died and Mr Walmsley was left with severe brain damage and deemed unable to face prosecution for causing death by dangerous driving.
A fact-finding hearing concluded that Mr Walmsley had driven dangerously in the run-up to the collision.
Frazer’s dad, 57-year-old James McCarthy, has been charged with persistently making use of public communication network to cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety to Mr Walmsley’s mum Kim Walmsley, on December 5 last year.
McCarthy, of Vale Crescent in Southport, pleaded not guilty to the charge at South Sefton Magistrates’ Court in Bootle yesterday and will stand trial on March 11.
He was released on bail.
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