LONDON: A Sikh driver has been jailed for eight years after running over and killing a young cyclist while he was high on drink and drugs.
Singh was over the drug limit. He told police that he could not answer their questions as they “could be in danger from drug dealers”, the report said.
Ajay Singh, 26, was driving a car at speed of up to 80 mph and had taken ketamine, cocaine, spice and alcohol when he hit Vicky Myres from behind as she was cycling in Timperley, Greater Manchester, in August.
She was catapulted over the car, fatally breaking her neck, and landed 57 metres up the road.
Myres suffered 66 injuries and died in a hospital. Singh did not stop despite his shattered windscreen. But his number plate came off in the collision and police arrested him within half an hour, Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester heard this week. Police found Singh in his flat “out of it” on drugs on his sofa, with glass fragments in his hair, refusing to explain why he had been driving so fast, the Daily Mail reported on Thursday.
Singh was over the drug limit. He told police that he could not answer their questions as they “could be in danger from drug dealers”, the report said. He was more than twice over the limit for alcohol but prosecutor said it could not be proved he was over limit at the time of crash.