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142mph driver who killed a man 'boasted' about his speed
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"Addil Haroon drove through a red light at more than 80mph and collided with Joseph Brown-Lartey"
"A motorist who sped through a red light and killed another driver had boasted about clocking 142mph on a motorway the previous night.
Addil Haroon, 19, (pictured above) took a photograph of the speedometer while racing on the M62 and sent it in a Snapchat message to a friend which read: "Leeds to Rochdale 11mins catch me."
In the early hours of the next day, November 9 last year, Haroon drove his Audi A6 hire car through a red light in Bury Road, Rochdale, at more than 80mph and collided with an Audi A5 driven by 25-year-old Joseph Brown-Lartey"
... "Today, Haroon, of Essex Street, Rochdale, was jailed at Manchester Minshull Street Crown for six years, said police, after he pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to causing death by dangerous driving and driving without a licence or insurance."
WARNING - DISTRESSING PHOTOS OF CAR DAMAGE http://travel.aol.co.uk/2015/05/29/142mph-driver-killed-man-boasted-about-speed/?icid=maing-grid7|ukt2|dl2|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D354579
This idiot caused a death and only got 6 years...for dangerous driving and driving without a licence or insurance. I'm speechless.
"A motorist who sped through a red light and killed another driver had boasted about clocking 142mph on a motorway the previous night.
Addil Haroon, 19, (pictured above) took a photograph of the speedometer while racing on the M62 and sent it in a Snapchat message to a friend which read: "Leeds to Rochdale 11mins catch me."
In the early hours of the next day, November 9 last year, Haroon drove his Audi A6 hire car through a red light in Bury Road, Rochdale, at more than 80mph and collided with an Audi A5 driven by 25-year-old Joseph Brown-Lartey"
... "Today, Haroon, of Essex Street, Rochdale, was jailed at Manchester Minshull Street Crown for six years, said police, after he pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to causing death by dangerous driving and driving without a licence or insurance."
WARNING - DISTRESSING PHOTOS OF CAR DAMAGE http://travel.aol.co.uk/2015/05/29/142mph-driver-killed-man-boasted-about-speed/?icid=maing-grid7|ukt2|dl2|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D354579
This idiot caused a death and only got 6 years...for dangerous driving and driving without a licence or insurance. I'm speechless.
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The only thing I can say about him is that he's a prize knob and deserves every miserable second of his sentence.
Thanks for that, I've only just come across the article and was gobsmacked at the sentencing. I so hope someone lays down a harsher sentence.
Here you go, confirmation of sentencing review: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-32933292
Thanks so much for the link. I hope to God someone sees sense and makes this a*sehole serve longer - although I appreciate nothing will bring back the victim.
This git must have been well chuffed with the original sentencing.
Seriously though, what an absolute bellwhiff.
Also, how did he hire a car with no insurance or licence?
What are they going to do to the person that hired the car?
I saw 3 people racing Audis on the way to Blackpool on monday, they were weaving in and out of traffic at high speed on the way to the M6 at junction 31.
When I first learnt to drive (many, many years ago), one of the first things my Dad said to me is that you're in control of a 2-ton lethal weapon. It's something I've never forgotten and I think it's something that should be told to all learners. With a set of car keys comes a huge amount of responsibility.
Unless he truly does learns his lesson in jail I doubt any driving ban would stop him to be honest.
Totally agree. Seem some don't give a monkey's about other people though, or the law, and that's when innocents are hurt. Makes my blood boil when I read about cases like this.
This is Rochdale, probably off a family memeber, or from one of the dodgy garages in the area. Usually a bunch of wideboys hire a fancy car and go around leering at underage girls.
Friendship would take a back seat and I'd do the same myself.
His friends had taken the back seat just before he crashed
An absolute idiot who deserves to be locked up for a long time and have his driving licence taken away permanently.
It rubs salt in the wound.
Simply shows it's not a "one-off", imo.
If memory serves me, I believe he also boasted about not doing much prison time for it either.
ETA: Found the article. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/rochdale-142mph-death-crash-jail-9347525#ICID=FB-MEN-main
That sentence is far too lenient to say the least, it's murder!
No better than shooting a gun where people are walking with your eyes closed.
It's not the boasting but the fact he was driving at 142mph with one hand on the wheel and the other using his phone.
As far as i'm aware he had never even passed his test!! Absolute arsehole, as are the people who hired the car for him!!! >:(
Well I hope the sentencing review wipes the smile from his smirky a*se.
Hope they're suitably punished also.