A ‘thrill-seeking’ teenager who caused the death of his 14-year-old friend as he rode his e-scooter on ‘turbo mode’ through a red light before crashing with a BMW has walked free from court.
Passenger Jacob Calland was on the back of the e-scooter and suffered irreversible severe brain injuries from the crash in Wythenshawe, Manchester, on March 19 last year. He died eight days later in hospital.
Manchester Crown Court heard the driver, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, received the scooter as a present from his mother two weeks before the collision.
After pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to causing
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