Drink-driver facing prison over death of boys
A DRINK-DRIVER is facing years in jail after he mowed down and killed three boys as they walked to a 16th birthday party.
Jaynesh Chudasama was more than two and a half times the limit and doing 71mph on a 60mph road when he ploughed into the teenagers, sending them flying through the air. The 28-year-old car hire worker, who also had traces of cannabis in his system, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to three counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
The court heard semiprofessional footballer Harry Rice, 17, apprentice electrician George Wilkinson, 16, and labourer Josh McGuinness, also 16, were in a group walking to a party at Goals five-a-side football club at 8.40pm on January 26.
The defendant had swung his Audi out to overtake another car in Shepiston Lane in Hayes when he lost control and hit the boys head-on. The victims were thrown into the air, the court heard. He and his passenger ran off, pursued by two boys, who dragged the driver back to where their friends lay mortally injured. One of them later admitted he had hit the driver over the head with a bottle to stop him getting away.
Meanwhile, a girl held George’s hand as he lay half in the road and half on the pavement with head and neck injuries. He had died instantly, along with Joshua, who was struck with such force that he was sent over a fence and into a cemetery.
Harry was carried on the bonnet of the car which crashed into the cemetery wall, crushing his body, the court heard. Chudasama, of Hayes, west London, was remanded in custody to be sentenced on Friday,March 9.
Detective Sergeant Jane Shaw, of Scotland Yard, said: “Three key decisions were made that night; the first by Chudasama, the driver, who decided to drive having consumed alcohol and then running from the scene, followed by the decisions of two young men who decided to stay at the devastating scene and detain him. These actions speak volumes as to the characters of the three.”