Tears of new mum jailed for crash that killed lover
Judge snubs plea to let speed girl let go free for sake of her baby son
A NEW mum sobbed yesterday as she was jailed for three years for killing her boyfriend in a car crash.
Natasha Scott, 21, took the crest of a hill so fast that her Vauxhall Corsa left the ground.
She then lost control on a bend and ploughed into a fence, brick wall and telegraph pole.
Rear-seat passenger Kai Milligan, 21, died while a 15-year-old boy in the car needed major surgery to reconstruct his face.
A 17-year-old girl and boy of 12 suffered minor injuries.
Scott’s lawyer argued that sending her to prison would breach her seven-month-old son’s human rights.
Defence counsel Barry Smith said: “She will live with the consequences of her driving that day. She blames herself for causing the death of her then boyfriend Kai.
“She says she thinks about it all the time. What she can’t bear is the prospect of being separated from her baby.”
But judge Lady Stacey told her: “You increased your speed on the straight and failed to decrease it despite there being a bend and signs on the road to slow down. You knew that road having driven it many times.”
A court heard Scott and her friends had been driving along the B7024 from Maybole to go shopping in Ayr on July 24, 2016. Prosecutor Duncan McPhie said Scott had “increased her speed” before becoming “airborne”, then lost control.
Investigators were unable to calculate exactly how fast Scott was travelling but said her speed was “excessive”.
McPhie said: “Mr Milligan – seated behind the driver – sustained fatal injuries as a fence post passed through a side rear window, striking him in the face.”
Scott, of Ayr, pled guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and injuring the other passengers. She had passed her test 11 months earlier.
Smith said: “I would ask that she be given an alternative to jail given the effect it would have on her infant son and her parents and the fact she is assessed as a low risk of reoffending.”
Lady Stacey banned Scott from driving for five years.
She can’t bear to be separated from her baby BARRY SMITH SCOTT’S DEFENCE COUNSEL