A judge accused the parents of a teenage driver who was jailed for six years for killing two friends in a high-speed crash of “over-indulging” him.
Owain Hammett-George was 17 when he drove at more than double the speed limit and lost control of a £21,000 Alfa Romeo bought for him by his father, a businessman, for passing his driving test.
The teenager’s friends Ben Rogers and Kaitlyn Davies, both 19, died in the single-car collision, while a third passenger, Casey Thomas, then 17, suffered a brain injury and a broken neck.
Ben Rogers, 19, was declared dead at the scene of the crash
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Hammett-George, now 19, admitted causing death by dangerous driving, death by careless driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Swansea crown court heard that he was driving an Alfa Romeo MiTo, complete