‘I hope my girl haunts killer driver’

THE mother of a teenage girl killed by a speeding driver screamed ‘I hope my daughter haunts your dreams’ after he dodged jail.

Jack Thomas, 20, was ordered to pay 18-year-old Talaina Hussain’s grieving family £1,000 in compensation after pleading guilty to death by careless driving.

Thomas, then 18, had taken Miss Hussain for a drive in Rochdale just two weeks after passing his driving test in November 2016.

After skidding around a bend at 38mph in a 30mph zone he drove his mother’s Peugeot 208 into a garden wall at ‘high speed’, leaving Miss Hussain with a fatal brain injury, Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court heard. She never regained consciousness and died two days later.

Thomas initially blamed the crash on his deceased passenger, claiming she had distracted him by grabbing his hand ‘affectionately’ prior to the crash. He received a suspended 26-week sentence and a 12-month driving ban, and was ordered to complete 280 hours of unpaid work. Leaving court, Miss Hussain’s mother Cheryl shouted: ‘I hope my daughter haunts your dreams.’