Mother jailed over crash while showing off which killed her child and cousin.
A mother who was showing off in an unroadworthy car before causing a “catastrophic” head-on crash which killed her three-year-old and her teenage cousin has been jailed.
Mary Stokes, 23, an uninsured and unlicensed driver, had five passengers in her Peugeot 206 which had been sold for scrap after failing its MOT, a court heard.
Two small children were not in child seats during her “persistent” spell of bad driving on the A1068 near Horden, County Durham, last September, Durham Crown Court was told.
Her three-year-old daughter Kelsey was thrown from the car and was killed, Richard Bennett, prosecuting, said.
The defendant’s 17-year-old cousin Shauna Stokes, who was travelling in the back of the car, died in hospital the following day, having been thrown halfway out of the car.
Three other under-18s were seriously injured in the crash, as was the driver of a Mercedes van which the Peugeot 206 hit head-on.
Stokes admitted two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and five counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
She was jailed for three years and eight months and disqualified from driving for seven years. Aol.
Blogger: and yet, a man gets over five years for killing cats in Brighton. His sentence was fair but showing such wanton and arrogant disregard for human life anything less than ten years is an abomination where justice is concerned for Stokes.
Ask yourself this. If the genders had been swapped over of these two heinous individuals - what would the sentences have been?
(And yes. I have even made allowances for the internal punishment she will undergo for knowing that she has killed her own daughter.)
