PALAKKAD: For years, Mullankuzhi Pradeep Kumar has driven an autorickshaw in and around Karimba panchayat to make ends meet, while his wife Sajitha has worked as a daily-wage labourer. Their modest hopes for a better future rested partly on their eldest daughter, Gopika, whose education and first steps towards a career had offered the family a glimpse of a life beyond hardship. Those hopes were shattered in the early hours of Sunday when a speeding Mini Cooper rammed into the scooter carrying the 21-year-old and two of her colleagues near the Athani signal, close to Kochi airport. At their sm...