![]() For the first seven or eight minutes there was nothing remarkable about your driving but when you ended up in rural areas it is there your foot very clearly hits the accelerator. Jailing Keilloh for three years, Judge Shaun Smith KC said: “I have watched the entirety of that journey which ended in tragedy. Read the original story: Drink-driver who killed teen friend Phoebe Johnson in crash jailed for three years In a victim impact statement, read to the judge, her father Paul told how his hatred of the defendant "is only matched by the love for my daughter and that's the only thing that keeps me going". Her sentencing hearing was told how prior to getting behind the wheel following a party in Derby, the 20-year-old had told her mother on the phone she was "too drunk" to drive.īut having decided to do just that, she drove out of Sunny Hill towards Ticknall, breaking the speed limit and while over the drink-drive limit, clipped a kerb on a corner and crashed into a tree and a hedge killing Phoebe. ![]() ![]() In January, Melissa Keilloh was jailed for three years for killing her 17-year-old friend Phoebe Johnson after she lost control of her car speeding down country lanes and smashed into a tree. Our court reporter Martin Naylor has rounded up the cases of those who have killed others and who have been sent to prison for doing so. Then, in conjunction with Derbyshire police, we share their mugshot. We frequently cover these cases, whether the defendant pleads guilty or elects for a trial. This might be during a deliberate act, or through getting behind the wheel of a car when they absolutely shouldn't have done so. The courts of Derby frequently deal with a variety of cases including, sadly, those where someone has lost their lives through the behaviour of others.
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