To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video An uninsured BMW driver who was high on cocaine and had downed pints of lager as well as shots before getting behind the wheel killed a six-year-old boy and two women in a 90mph crash. Joe-Lewis Tyler, 34, drove erratically at high speed before smashing into a taxi that was pulling out of a school on Spetchley Road in Worcester at 3pm on February 22 this year. Six-year-old Leo Painter had just been picked up from Abigail’s Place School when Tyler lost control and hit the car he was sitting in.
Shocking CCTV shows the moment the grey BMW ploughed into the white Ford Mondeo with such force it span 180 degrees and ended up on a grass verge. Taxi driver Courtney Hemming, 26, and Claire Adkins, 39, who was escorting Leo to his foster home, both died at the scene. Leo was rushed to hospital but died of multiple injuries the next day.
Tyler, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to three counts of causing death by dangerous driving. He was jailed for 18 years at Worcester Crown Court but will be eligible for release after serving 12 years. Friends and relatives of the three victims slammed the ‘pathetic sentence’.
Ms Hemming’s partner Luke Bridger said: ‘The sentence is no deterrent to anyone. ‘It’s a pathetic sentence. The police did a fantastic job getting the conviction but the courts let the public down.
’ A friend of Leo’s devastated mum Gemma said: ‘Wha.