‘What happened will shape your life every day’ judge tells car crash teen
A 15-year-old boy who caused the deaths of five people when he ploughed a stolen car into a tree must live with his actions for a lifetime, a judge has told him.
Ellis Thornton-kimmitt, 12, his brother, Elliott, 14, Darnell Harte, 15, Robbie Meerun, 24, and Anthony Armour, 24, died when the stolen Renault Clio they were all travelling in crashed in Stonegate Road, Leeds, on 25 November.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court to four-and-a-half years’ detentionandwasdisqualified from driving for seven years and three months.
He had pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court in December to five counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
Sentencing him, judge Peter Collier QC told him: “I am sure that you genuinely feel very sorry about what has happened.
“I also know that what happened that night will shape your life every day from now on. I do not think there will ever be a day when you will not remember what happened and really regret what you did.”
David Holderness, of the CPS, said: “The defendant acted in a supremely dangerous way, driving erratically and at speeds of around 88mph in a residential area. Tragically his victims paid the price … with their lives.”