'Ban unsafe cars' says grieving mother

Kersti Thomson said Green deserved his punishment

The mother of a pregnant woman, killed by a drink driver from Leicester, is calling for tougher laws on the sale of second hand vehicles.

Kersti Thompson's daughter Andrea was killed when her drunk boyfriend, Stephen Green, crashed a car he had bought for scrap.

Green, 25, of Crossledge Close in Beaumont Leys, is starting a six year sentence after being found guilty on Tuesday of causing her death.

Following the court case Mrs Thompson said she wants to make it harder to sell an unsafe car.

Illegal sale

Just hours before the crash in January of this year, Green bought his car for £30 despite knowing it had no main brakes and a faulty suspension.

He boasted he would drive it home at 140 miles an hour, but crashed on a traffic island at Bramcote in Nottinghamshire.

Andrea and the unborn child died from their injuries.

Kersti Thompson said: "I wish that people would have to say whether the car was safe to go on the roads and there is nothing wrong with it.

"If there is a problem it should be illegal to sell the vehicle."

Andrea would have turned 21 this year and her family said she had a great deal to live for.