A delivery driver from north Manchester was filmed inhaling laughing gas shortly before a horror crash that killed his teenage friend.
Cameron Hughes, 24, had also been using his mobile phone to stream music and access Snapchat seconds before ploughing his van off a parapet in east Lancashire on July 7 this year, claiming the life of Bonney Rae Barrow.
The 15-year-old's family today (Monday, October 30) walked out of court as he was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for causing her death by dangerous driving. READ MORE: 'Everything inside me ruptured in the horrific crash that killed my dad...
then I had to make a decision' READ MORE: Police make second arrest in Moss Side murder investigation During an emotional hearing at Preston Crown Court, Bonney's mum Sarah Barrow read a statement about her daughter and the circumstances in which she died, Lancs Live reports.
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