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Victims mother tells sons killer to 'live a better life'

Robin Deberry
Robin Deberry September 1, 2022
Updated 2022/09/01 at 5:19 AM
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‘My son doesn’t have a life… YOU use it’: Mother of man killed when 15-year-old joyrider smashed into a taxi addresses the killer in court and urges him to ‘get your life back on track’ as he is jailed for six years

  • Jack Simpson, 16, crashed a stolen van head-on into a taxi In Bradford on June 13
  • Taxi driver Sohail Ali, 28, and passenger Simon McHugh, 49, both died at the scene after Simpson hit the Toyota Prius they were in
  • Mr McHugh’s mother told Simpson: ‘My son doesn’t have a life any more. Please use it, do some good with your life’ 

Mr McHugh (pictured) was killed in a car accident by reckless driver Jack Simpson. His mother told her sons killer ‘do some good with your life’ in court

A teenager who killed his friend and two other men in a crash was told to ‘do some good with your life’ by one of the victims’ mothers who addressed him in court.

Jack Simpson was days short of his 16th birthday when he crashed a stolen van head-on into a taxi while driving the wrong way on a motorway in a bid to avoid police.

The incident happened on the M606 near the Chain Bar roundabout in Bradford, West Yorkshire, at about 10.45pm on June 13.

Bradford Crown Court heard Simpson’s 18-year-old friend Kyden Leadbeater – one of two front seat passengers in the Ford transit van – died hours later in hospital.

Taxi driver Sohail Ali, 28, and his 49-year-old passenger Simon McHugh, both died at the scene after Simpson hit the Toyota Prius they were in, it was said.

On Tuesday the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Richard Mansell QC, sentenced Simpson, now 16, to six years in detention.

The teenager, from the Holme Wood area of Bradford, had pleaded guilty to three counts of causing death by dangerous driving, and one of dangerous driving.  

Reading her victim impact statement in court, Mr McHugh’s mother told Simpson: ‘My son doesn’t have a life any more. Please use it, do some good with your life.’

Jack Simpson (pictured) was days short of his 16th birthday when he crashed a stolen van head-on into a taxi while driving the wrong way on a motorway in a bid to avoid police

She told the defendant she hoped he would have a happy life with children, adding she hoped no-one would ‘knock on his door in the middle of the night to say one of his own’ had been killed.

Addressing Simpson directly, she said: ‘So Jack, think about that. Live your life as a better life. Get your life back on track.’  

The judge also lifted a ban on media reporting of Simpson’s name, saying there was a ‘high public interest’ in naming the defendant in spite of his age.

Judge Mansell said the lifting of the teenager’s anonymity was to ‘send a clear message of deterrence to the people of Bradford, particularly the youth, in the hope it will serve to reduce the number of incidents of appalling driving’ that were ‘blighting the city’s reputation’.

The court heard the van driven by Simpson, who was on bail at the time over allegations of night-time burglaries, had been stolen from outside a property in Pudsey on June 13, and was used in the afternoon to commit a robbery.

Judge Mansell said that by 10.45pm, Simpson was driving the van with two passengers when it was spotted by a police officer who began following it.

Simpson ‘immediately accelerated away’ from the police car, which activated its blue lights and sirens, the judge said.

The court heard Simpson reached speeds of up to 70mph in a 30mph zone while being pursued by the officer, drove through a temporary red light protecting roadworks and went the wrong way round a roundabout.

Bradford Crown Court heard Simpson’s 18-year-old friend Kyden Leadbeater (pictured) – one of two front seat passengers in the Ford transit van – died hours later in hospital

The incident happened on the M606 near the Chain Bar roundabout in Bradford, West Yorkshire, at about 10.45pm on June 13

Judge Mansell said Simpson drove in the direction of Cleckheaton, going onto the wrong side of the road to overtake another vehicle and reaching around 90mph.

The teenager went the wrong way round a second roundabout before joining the M606 slip road in the wrong direction, the court heard.

The judge said one witness described flashing his lights and blowing his horn at Simpson, but he ‘made no attempt to move’.

‘He believed you were pushing the van as hard as it was possible to push it, from the noise,’ Judge Mansell said.

He told Simpson an HGV driver saw him ‘plough straight into that taxi (driven by Mr Ali) causing it to leap into the air’.

‘You didn’t even brake,’ the judge said.

He added: ‘Nothing I can do by way of sentence can possibly compensate the family and friends of these three men who tragically lost their lives as a result of your senseless driving.

 ‘Nothing I can do by way of sentence can possibly compensate the family and friends of these three men who tragically lost their lives as a result of your senseless driving’, the judge said

‘You were seriously injured but you have recovered from your injuries.’

Peter Moulson QC, mitigating, said Simpson had been ‘traumatised by witnessing domestic abuse between his parents and in his father’s subsequent relationships’.

He told the court: ‘He has killed a friend and caused the deaths of two other wholly innocent people.

‘None of the terrible consequences of that criminality were in any way intended or deliberate.’

He said a pre-sentence report concluded Simpson ‘genuinely regrets his actions and feels guilt and remorse, but struggles to verbalise this’.

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