RAY’S friends at the Branksome Railway Hotel told how they will always remember him.
After the court hearing the 46-year-old’s wife Liz went back to the pub where she had been with him before he died crossing the road outside.
Landlady Hannah Allner told how Ray had been a popular regular.
She said: “He will never be forgotten and we will always be doing things in his memory.”
The Tutton Ten beer at the pub was named after Ray after he died and 50 pence from each pint sold goes to the road safety charity Brake.
And the pub has already raised more than £1,000 for the family through fundraising events.
Hannah was shocked at the sentence.
“They guy drove away so I would’ve expected a lot more,” she said.
“It’s not justice is it?”
“But the two men who caught him were amazing and we would like to welcome them up here for drinks.
“They are bouncers but they weren’t working and they were driving home so they didn’t have to do that.”
Pub regular Andrew Sayers described the length of the prison term as “an absolute disgrace.”
He said: “Ray is dead and this person is responsible for it.”
“When do you begin to set an example that becomes a deterrent?”
Ray’s wife Liz has been touched by the golf day held in Ray’s memory that also raised £240 for the Brake charity and she also praised the two drivers who caught Chen, describing them as “heroes”.
“If they had not followed him and if it wasn’t for them then I don’t think we would’ve got a conviction,” she said.
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