A SPEEDING Audi driver who caused a taxi driver’s death has been slammed for trying to shift the blame onto the beloved late father he killed.
Krishan Patel, 24, was doing more than twice the speed limit on Trafford Road, in Ordsall, Salford, when he hit a Renault Megane in 2020. William Welsh, 46, suffered multiple injuries and died two days later.
Patel was convicted by a jury of causing death by dangerous driving following a trial at Manchester Crown Court.
He has now been jailed for four-and-a-half years. The court heard Mr Welsh was sitting on top of his fastened seatbelt. Patel’s lawyer said Mr Welsh contributed ‘significantly to both the collision and the death’.
The judge in the case rubbished those claims, telling the defendant: “I wonder, if a child had run into the road, would you have sought to blame them as you blamed Mr Welsh? It is tragic he was not wearing a seatbelt, not that that killed him – it was the collision at speed that killed him.”
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