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18.01.2023 - 08:03 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A young woman from Derby has been jailed for killing her 17-year-old friend during a drink-driving accident after she lost control of her car and smashed into a tree. Derby Crown Court heard Melissa Keilloh told her mother she was 'too drunk' to drive before she got behind the wheel after a party on October 22, 2021.
However, she decided to drive anyway while over the drink-drive limit and sped down country lanes before clipping a kerb on a corner and crashing into a tree. Phoebe Johnson, who was a passenger in the car at the time, tragically lost her life as a result of the awful incident, the Derby Telegraph reports.
In a victim impact statement read to the judge by her father Paul who is a retired police officer, he said his hatred of the defendant 'is only matched by the love for my daughter and that's the only thing that keeps me going'. Judge Shaun Smith KC jailed Keilloh for three years as he said: "Where does one begin when the driving of someone has changed the lives of so many forever? I have watched the entirety of that journey which ended in tragedy".
"For the first seven or eight minutes there was nothing remarkable about your driving but when you ended up in rural areas it is there your foot very clearly hits the accelerator. I have no doubt your state of inebriation, the loud music, the group mentality and the empty roads caused you to drive in the way you did.
"Your careless acts in that car caused the death of Phoebe. There is no price on a human's life, there never can be and I am not putting one on Phoebe's. Sentencing does not allow an eye for an eye whatever people might think."
Sarah Slater prosecuting told the court that the accident took place on the A514 between Stanton by Bridge and Ticknall in
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