Driver downing vodka on his way home from airport after row with wife killed baby and aunt in horror incident

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A drink-driver who a judge said played 'Russian roulette' with lives on a motorway at more than 140mph killed a baby and his aunt in a horror crash.

Darryl Anderson, 38, took a photograph of his speedometer showing 141mph moments before impact. A court heard he drank excessively on a plane back from a holiday and had been driving his Audi Q5 erratically from the airport.

Anderson, who was almost three times over the drink-drive limit, has now been jailed for more than 17 years. Mother Sharlona Warner tearfully described frantically searching for her eight-month-old son, Zackary Blades, who was thrown from her Peugeot 308 out of his car seat, and into the opposite carriageway of the A1 motorway in the early hours of May 31, between Chester-le-Street and Durham. READ MORE: Missing Jay Slater: New update issued by Spanish police in Tenerife search Her sister Karlene was thrown from the backseat into the front airbags and both she and her nephew were killed instantly, Durham Crown Court heard.

Anderson, the court heard, had been driving his Audi Q5 erratically from Newcastle Airport having been drinking excessively on the plane back from a shortened holiday after falling out with his wife.