Two men who filmed themselves speeding at 139mph in a 30mph zone while inhaling from balloons before crashing and killing the driver of another car have been sentenced to a total of 23 years in jail.
Uways Hussain, 20, and Usmon Mahmood, 23, had spent the night driving dangerously through Manchester before colliding with a vehicle being driven by Sylvester Abayomi.
Just more 'driving while ethnic' on Britain's streets, entirely unhindered by traffic cops...
Rachel Shenton, prosecuting, said the Golf had been driven 'at speed' through the light and Mahmood had 'chanted encouragement' to Hussain as he drove. Immediately after the collision, Greater Manchester Police received an alert from Hussain's Apple watch which detected he had been involved in a collision.
Wow! I didn't know that was a feature. A watch that alerts the cops you've crashed! No wonder they are all seemingly incompetent and lazy these days, tech is doing their job for them!
Today they were jailed at Manchester Crown Court after pleading guilty to the charges against them.
Greater Manchester Police received several emergency calls to the crash and the automatic alert from the Apple watch.
The judge was pretty harsh, considering the race of the defendants and the location:
The judge described the video footage as 'terrifying' and said Hussain had shown a 'flagrant disregard for the safety of other road users' and undertaken 'deliberate risk-taking seemingly for the thrill of it'.The pair had not attempted to assist the victim, he said, but had fled the scene following the crash and Mr Abayomi was killed by 'conduct that was appalling and entirely avoidable'.
But not when it came to their driving:
He also handed both men an eight-year driving ban.
It should have been a lifetime ban.
