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A 'calculated' hit-and-run driver put a family through 'unimaginable pain' when he killed a man with 'a heart of gold' as he sped off from a failed drugs deal.

Ryan Griffiths, 29, was hit by a dark coloured VW Golf on Burleigh Road, Wolverhampton, on August 21 last year.

Aden Wright - who was behind the wheel - stopped to pick up a passenger, then drove off, leaving Ryan lying motionless in the road.

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Ryan was taken to hospital but tragically died two days later, due to the extent of his injuries.

Police believed Wright, the registered keeper of the car, was driving at the time, and launched a manhunt.

The car was recovered and forensically examined and Wright was arreste

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