Drug driver who killed his brother and girl, 19, in horror crash before fleeing is jailed
A DRUG driver who killed his brother and a teenage girl in a horror crash before fleeing the scene has been jailed.
Jordon White, 20, lost control of his Vauxhall Corsa and smashed into a tree while speeding to overtake another motorist in Tebworth, Bedfordshire, in January this year.
White and two other passengers managed to flee the crash.
But tragically two others, his ex-girlfriend Ellie Ogden-Hooper, 19, and his brother Reece White, 23, died at the scene.
Miss Ogden-Hooper was thrown from the car and died in a field.
While Mr White was found dead in the back seat.
A St Albans Crown Court heard how he tried to blame the smash on his dead brother.
White, from Leighton Buzzard, later admitted two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
He was jailed for six years on Friday.
White is also banned from driving for nine years after his release.
'COWARD' KILLER DRIVER
Jailing him, Judge Michael Kay QC said White had been "driving too fast and showing off" and fled in a “cowardly fashion".
He said: “In a callous and utterly despicable way you sought to blame your own deceased brother for what occurred.
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"It is almost beyond comprehension that you sought to apportion blame to him to save your own skin.”
Police said that White had been driving with just a provisional license at the time and had been smoking cannabis.
Detective Sergeant Ben Heath, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Road Policing Unit, said: “I am glad that White has been found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving and will be spending a considerable time behind bars.
“His reckless actions that day claimed the lives of two young people, as well as the life-changing impact the collision has had on the other people involved.
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“Speeding and driving under the influence of drugs are just two reasons why collisions turn fatal, and anyone who doesn’t take their safety while driving seriously should look at the serious and devastating consequences that it can have on yours and other people’s lives.
“I also want to thank the members of the public who stopped to help one of the casualties who was still in the car, for their extraordinary kindness and bravery.”