Jail for 100mph crash driver

It is thought Johnson was driving at 100 miles an hour

A driver who killed two children in a 100mph collision in Cornwall has been jailed for five years.

Benjamin Johnson, 23, formerly of Wadebridge, Cornwall, was also banned from driving for six years on Tuesday.

He had earlier pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to driving dangerously and to causing the deaths of 10-year-old Rachel Biddle and 16-year-old Raymond Towers.

The court heard the collision between two cars sounded like an aeroplane crash.

Raymond Towers' mother, Georgie Towers, says it was still hard to come to terms with the death of her son, who was a passenger in Johnson's car.

No driving licence

"You just try and get through every day the best you can," she said.

"I still have two other children that I have to pull through it and if I'm not strong then they're not."

The two young people died when two cars collided head-on on the Wadebridge by-pass.

Rachel Biddle was a passenger in the second car and had just been collected from a gym club by a friend's mother Sharon Lobb.

At the time of the accident, it is thought Johnson was driving at close to 100mph.

The court heard how Johnson had no driving licence and had last had a driving lesson six years previously.

He also had no insurance for his vehicle.

Judge Graham Cottle sentenced him to five years in jail, and ordered that he must serve at least half his sentence.