On 01/02/2024 09:08 am, Simon Mason wrote:
“I’VE killed her. I know I’ve killed her,” said a fully-unqualified chav-cyclist when he and his girlfriend were flung from his car after he drunkenly crashed into a tree.
Mohsin Khan was almost twice over the legal limit when he lost control of his Volkswagon [sic] Golf and crashed on the A420 between Great Coxwell and Watchfield on New Year's Eve.
The force of the crash hurled himself and Charlotte Draper, 25, out of the vehicle.
The mother-of-four was rushed to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington where she had needles put in her chest to help her start breathing again.
She remains in the hospital where she has been told she may be paralysed from the waist down.
Khan, who had been disqualified from driving only 12 days before the crash, was jailed for three years and four months at Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday (January 30) for causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
What about "driving" while disqualified, "driving" without a driving
licence and "driving" without insurance?
IOW, "driving" while being nothing better than a totally and
fully-unqualified chav-cyclist.
Miss Draper’s mother, Victoria Baker, said her daughter’s future is still unknown.
In a victim impact statement read out in court, she said: “The fact [Khan] will now go to prison and be out while she is in hospital…it’s so unfair that has been so injured and that the rest of her life is ruined.
“She said she would rather be in prison than in hospital. It makes me so frustrated, angry and confused that the defendant can walk, talk and be fine while she is in hospital.”
Defending Khan, barrister Aubrey Fletcher said he ‘readily acknowledges’ that Miss Draper faces life-altering injuries.
She said: “The officer in the case comments that she’s never encountered a more thorough account of admission. He’s not trying to minimise his actions.”
The court heard he also had a maturity screening test which provided a low result, as well as having an IQ of 75.
IQ of 75?
The ideal chav-cyclist.
Sentencing Khan, Judge Ian Pringle accepted he demonstrated genuine remorse and gave him credit for his early guilty pleas.
Khan, wearing a white t-shirt and grey tracksuit bottoms, showed no reaction to his sentence.
He was also disqualified from driving for four years and will need to take an extended retest.
Prosecuting the case, barrister Helen Rodger said that dash cam footage suggested that the 23-year-old was exceeding the 50mph speed limit at the time of the crash.
While paramedics sought to help an unconscious Miss Draper, Khan, of no fixed abode, could be heard saying: “I’ve killed her. I know I’ve killed her.”
Empty beer bottles were found in the car and Khan admitted during police interview that he was over the limit and driving while disqualified and thus without insurance.
https://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/24084142.a420-crash-near-great-coxwell-leads-jail-drink-driver/
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