A driver's "momentary inattention" caused the death of a 62-year-old motorcyclist in a head-on crash in Perthshire.

Graeme McLaughlin, 30, from East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, admitted causing the death of James Lambert by careless driving during an overtaking manoeuvre.

Mr Lambert suffered multiple fractures and died of massive blood loss after he was hit by McLaughlin's Ford Fiesta in the collision on the A822 between Muthill and Crieff in Perthshire on July 11, 2014.

Judge Lord Armstrong said: "This was not a deliberate course of bad driving but negligence and momentary inattention on your part."

At the High Court in Glasgow, father-of-two McLaughlin was ordered to perform 240 hours unpaid work and has been banned from driving for four years.

The court was told Mr Lambert's BMW motorcycle, which was coming in the opposite direction, was struck "full force" as McLaughlin overtook a Land Rover.

The force of the impact caused Mr Lambert's bike to fragment. He suffered fractures to his legs, ribs and spine and died from massive blood loss and shock.

The court heard the driver of the Land Rover never saw the biker and police road safety experts thought this could be because of shadows from overhanging trees.

Defence counsel Tony Graham said: "Mr McLaughlin offers his apologies to the family of Mr Lambert, for the consequences of his actions on that day.

"Mr McLaughlin says that day will haunt him forever."