Omar Choudhury and Hamidur Rahman will be sentenced later this year
Two men have been found guilty of causing the death of a teenage girl after she was mowed down while she walked to college.Choudhury, 22, had been travelling at 66mph in a 30mph zone shortly before the collision, on Rochdale Road in Oldham.He had been trying to overtake a car on the wrong side of the road, before clipping another vehicle and losing control.
Prosecutors said that Rahman blamed Choudhury for informing his family about a relationship he was having with a woman, which her family 'disapproved' of.Rahman brandished a baseball bat and Choudhury then set off ‘like a rocket’.Witnesses who saw the cars speed by thought the cars were 'racing'. Alisha was pronounced dead at the scene following the collision, which occurred at about 1.30pm near the Royal Oldham Hospital.
Anthony Stanway, Senior Crown Prosecutor for CPS North West said: “Hamidur Rahman and Omar Choudhury’s manner of driving was selfish and reckless. They put many lives at risk that day with the worst possible outcome, the death of a young girl who had her whole life ahead of her.
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