A drugged-up driver who killed two young men after going at speeds of more than 100mph has been jailed for almost 10 years.Taylor Hanlon lost control of his high-powered Subaru on the A706 near Kepscaith Farm in West Lothian on August 29, 2020.
The unemployed 27 year-old's car landed upturned in a field.Connor Elgey, 19, and Troi Lawton, 23, were passengers in the motor and died as a result.
Father and son Andrew and John Goldie - also in the Subaru - were badly hurt.Tests later showed Hanlon had earlier taken cocaine, cannabis and Valium before getting behind the wheel in the early hours of that morning.
Hanlon was today sentenced to nine years and seven months having earlier pled guilty to causing the deaths and serious injury by dangerous driving.Lord Mulholland told him at the High Court in Glasgow: "The car was powerful and high performance.
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