Driver who killed two boys jailed

A banned driver who killed two young brothers in a hit-and-run six days after being released from prison has been jailed for nine years.

Serial criminal Robert Brown was on licence after serving half of a six-month sentence for possession of an offensive weapon, and on a cocktail of drugs, when he mowed down Corey and Casper Platt-May, aged six and two, on February 22.

The boys were with their mother, Louise Platt-May, in MacDonald Road, Coventry, at about 2pm when a Ford Focus, driven by Brown, ploughed into them at more than 60mph in a 30mph zone.

The boys were taken to

“Every minute I picture their faces on the road”

hospital but Casper could not be revived and Corey died later. Their mother was physically unhurt.

In a victim personal statement from their mother, read to Warwick Crown Court by father Reece Platt-May yesterday, she said: “My heart is broken – my heart is broken and time will never heal this.”

She added: “Every minute, I picture their faces on the road.

“The sound of the car hitting them.”

The 53-year-old defendant admitted all charges against him last month, including two counts of death by dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, using a motor vehicle without insurance and using a motor vehicle without a licence.

Brown, of Attwood Crescent, Coventry, showed no emotion as the judge jailed him for nine years for each count of causing death by dangerous driving, to run concurrently, four months for disqualified driving, and banned him for 15 years.