Overview
- Regan Kemp, 26, was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court to 15 years and six months in prison and banned from driving for 17 years and two months.
- He struck 19-year-old Ashton Kitchen-White on Ring Road Beeston Park in Middleton on May 16 while traveling about 80mph in a 30mph zone.
- Mobile phone video from inside the Ford Focus captured Kemp accelerating as a passenger said 'that's crazy fast' moments before the collision.
- CCTV showed Kemp abandoning the car and fleeing before traveling to Scotland and then to Penzance, where he later handed himself in; he was arrested on May 20.
- Judge Neil Clark condemned Kemp’s lack of remorse and blame-shifting, the family issued emotional statements of loss, and police called the death completely avoidable.