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A middle-aged ‘boy racer’ who killed two teenagers while ‘showing off’ in his fire-spitting turbo-charged sports car has been jailed for 13-and-a-half years.
Dhiya Al Maamoury, 56, ‘completely’ lost control of his souped-up Nissan Skyline and ploughed into a group of friends at a car meet in Oldbury, near Birmingham, in November 2022.
The collision killed Liberty Charris, 16, and 19-year-old Ben Corfield, and seriously injured Ethan Kilburn, who was 21, and Ebonie Parkes, who was 20.
Al Maamoury admitted two counts of causing deaths by dangerous driving and two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
Family members of the victims sobbed in the public gallery at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Friday as the extensive list of injuries they suffered were read out.
Despite attempts by police officers, who arrived moments after the collision, and paramedics, both Liberty and Ben died at the scene.
Prosecutor Michelle Heeley KC told the court the car, which had been imported from Japan around 18 months before the collision, had been modified so the exhaust would spit fire and had a turbo engine fitted.
She said Al Maamoury had been driving at speeds of between 54 and 57mph on the 40mph stretch of road and was ‘fishtailing’ before he lost control completely and ploughed into the group on the pavement.
Dhiya Al Maamoury, 56, was sentenced to 13-and-a-half years for the collision-related deaths (Picture: West Midlands Police/PA)
The collision killed Liberty Charris, 16, and 19-year-old Ben Corfield (Picture: West Midlands Police/PA)
Damian Corfield, Ben’s father, told the court how his life ended the night Al Maamoury killed his son (Picture: West Midlands Police/SWNS)
She said: ‘The cause of this collision was not that he was driving too fast, although clearly he was speeding. Other vehicles had driven at faster speeds on this same stretch.
‘What caused this was the defendant accelerating excessively, as he booted it the back end of his car lost traction with the road and he then began to head towards the central reservation. He tried to over correct and lost control completely.
‘He wasn’t under the influence of alcohol or drugs. What he was doing was cruising and showing off, driving dangerously in an area full of pedestrians.’
Arrested at the scene, Al Maamoury claimed he had taken his sons to the meet as they liked to photograph cars and denied speeding, saying the car went to the curb ‘by itself’ and that he was simply on his way home and had made a U-turn at the roundabout.
Ms Heeley said Snapchat and CCTV footage proved this was not true, adding: ‘He had been in a side road, pressing his accelerator before joining the dual carriageway.
‘He denied in interview that he was showing off. The prosecution point to the social media material to demonstrate that is exactly what he was doing.’
Ebonie Parkes and Ethan Kilburn, who were injured in the collision (Picture: West Midlands Police/PA)
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Source:: Metro
