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Scots motorist who killed teen cyclist while driving at 'grossly excessive' speed in fog jailed

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A motorist who killed a schoolboy cyclist after driving at "grossly excessive" speed in dark and foggy conditions was jailed today.

Sami Ula Jabbar was travelling at about 80mph in a 30mph zone in a Mercedes E400 when he collided with 16-year-old Harley Smith on November 6, 2020.

A judge told Jabbar, 29, at the High Court in Edinburgh : "Be under no misapprehension here. This is a very serious matter." Lord Mulholland said: "Cyclists are as much entitled to use the roads, the Queen's highway, as motorists and they are entitled to feel safe and be safe."You have taken a young man's life.

Loved by his family, you have delivered to them a life sentence, a life sentence of loss and grief," he said.The judge rejected a plea to release Jabbar on bail ahead of sentencing him next month after he plead guilty to causing the death of Harley on by driving dangerously in roads in Falkirk, in Stirlingshire.The St Mungo's High School pupil was struck after trying to cross Polmont Road, at Laurieston, and suffered fatal head injury.Advocate depute Alex Prentice QC told the court: "It is obvious that Harley Smith was a much loved young man who had great ambition in life and enriched the lives of others."The prosecutor said that earlier in the evening he had left his home in Grangemouth with his bike after telling his mother that he wanted to go out for a while.

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