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19.04.2023 - 20:37 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A police officer at the wheel of a speeding patrol car which crashed into a boy of 15 while responding to a 999 call - causing the lad catastrophic brain injuries - has admitted to a jury her driving was careless.
But PC Sarah De Meulemeester denied her driving was dangerous.
With the boy's family watching on, she told court: "There's no words that can ever begin to say how sorry I am, how sorry I am this happened. There's nothing that can make it right."
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She had been driving above the speed limit and on the wrong side of a traffic island before she struck Khia Whitehead, 15, on Garners Lane in Adswood, Stockport, late on Boxing Day, 2020, as she responded to a report a man with a knife was attacking his mother, according to the prosecution.
The youngster was left in a persistent vegetative state following the smash.
The teenager was standing in the hatched area behind the island with a friend when another police car, with its blue lights on, sped past on its way to the domestic incident.
Jurors have heard Khia was distracted watching the car after it passed and stepped into the road not realising the defendant's vehicle and another GMP car were following. Khia suffered severe head and brain injuries.
PC De Meulemeester, 26, of Mill Court, Chinley, Derbyshire, denies causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Before Miss De Meulemeester began her evidence, jurors at Liverpool Crown Court today (Wednesday) were read an 'agreed fact' which stated the defendant admitted an offence of careless driving, although she continues to deny a charge of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Asked by her barrister David Temkin KC if she accepted her
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