Driver 'racing at 84mph' before killing two - court

25-YEAR-OLD WHO FLED SCENE IS SENTENCED TO 13 YEARS, 3 MONTHS

- MATTHEW COOPER News Reporter

A DRIVER who killed a mother and her daughter in a head-on Boxing Day crash had been “racing” with another car at up to 84mph in a 30mph zone, a court heard.

Mohammed Ibrahim, 25, fled the scene after his BMW 420 - travelling “in convoy” with a BMW X3 - crashed into a quad bike and then hit an MG car containing four generations of the same family.

Birmingham Crown Court was told that Amanda Riley, 49, and Linda Philips, 72, both died at the scene despite the efforts of paramedics to save them at the roadside in the Shard End area of the city.

Four other family members travelling in the MG suffered injuries, including a fractured sternum, a broken leg requiring surgery and bruising to the lungs.

Ibrahim, of Old College Road, Sheldon pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and three counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

Judge Paul Farrer KC sentenced him to 13 years and three months.

Passing sentence, he said passerby Stuart Bates had courageously helped passengers escape from the burning MG and “may well have saved three lives”.