A drug-driving dad who was 13 times over the limit and killed his son in a car crash will ‘have to live with the consequences of his actions for the rest of his life’.
Leon Clarke had snorted cocaine the night before the devastating crash that killed his son Blake
A court heard how he then lost control of his BMW on the M60 and smashed into a highways maintenance lorry. Blake’s mother, Victoria Consterdine, condemned the actions of Clarke saying ‘he never gave his children a chance’.She said: ‘Blake and Mason didn’t get a choice or a chance that day after they left their nana’s, all the choices were made for them by their dad who they were both excited to see.‘My boys didn’t stand a chance. Now I live in a continuous nightmare that I’m yet to wake from.
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