Dad-of-one Timothy Burgess died and his partner Wendy Wall suffered life-changing injuries after Joshua Aldred's car hit theirs head-on.
Joshua Eldred, centre, killed Timothy Burgess, left, and inflicted life-changing injuries on his partner Wendy Wall, right A driver who caused a fatal crash while rushing to work the morning after a cocaine-fuelled bender has been jailed for 12 years. Joshua Eldred, 31, killed father-of-one Timothy Burgess and left his partner Wendy Wall with life-changing injuries when he ploughed head-on into their car on a Cheshire motorway earlier this year.
She suffered a stroke as a result and is still being treated in a rehabilitation unit. Tests showed Eldred was just over the blood alcohol limit, two-and-a-half times the cocaine limit and 16 times over the limit for BZE, a compound used to test recent cocaine usage. Adam Antoszkiw, defending, said his client’s mobile phone was fixed to the dashboard in front of him and that the phone was not in his hands while his making the phone calls.
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