Pop singer jailed after killing cyclist in crash

LONDON: A singer who toured with Little Mix has been jailed after she killed a cyclist in a road crash when she failed to stop at a roundabout.

Nadine Samuels, 27, drove into Debbie Mills on the A414, in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, shortly after 9:00am on March 21.

Another driver had stopped in the middle of three lanes to wait for Mills to pass but Samuels, who was in the band MO, claimed she had not seen the 54-year-old on the road.

Samuels stopped after the crash and dialled 999 but was so distressed that another member of the public had to inish the call to the emergency services.

Mills suffered traumatic brain injuries and died after being lown to hospital for emergency treatment.

The mother-of-three’s husband Kevin said: “We had been married for almost 25 years. We had planned our irst holiday together without the children. We planned to do so much together. We have suffered so much since Debbie died. Her life has been taken from us.”

Samuels pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to causing death by careless driving.

She was jailed for eight months and banned from driving for two years at St Albans Crown Court.

Samuels’ defence barrister Simon Gledhill said she had been unfamiliar with the road in question, adding that she had written to Mrs Mills’ family to express her “genuine and overwhelming” remorse.

Judge Michael Kay QC told the singer: “You did not seen Mrs Mills. You did not stop and you collided with her bicycle and she was knocked off. Very tragically she died from her injuries.