Jamie Hughes, 23, crashed his car on the M62 while driving under the influence of ketamine, killing his girlfriend Kate Swale, 21. Hughes, who had been in a relationship with Ms Swale for nine months, told police he couldn't remember the crash and 'felt like it was a dream'. He was found to be 3.7 times over the legal limit for ketamine.
A ketamine-fuelled drug driver swerved off the M62 and killed his girlfriend after picking her up following her shift at a pub. Kate Swale was 'in the prime of her life' at the age of 21, but died when the car in which she was being carried as a passenger smashed into a tree on the embankment of the motorway. Her boyfriend Jamie Hughes was more than three times over the legal limit for ketamine at the time of the collision.
' Hughes meanwhile was shown to have searched for 'snorting ketamine', 'Special K drug effects, dangers and help' on the afternoon of May 24. The prosecution counsel added: 'Here, a couple of days before the incident, the defendant was searching online appreciating that he had a ketamine problem.' He has no previous convictions and held a clean driving licence, having passed his test in June 2021.
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE FATAL ACCIDENT KETAMINE DRUG DRIVING TRAGEDY
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