Overview
- Chester Crown Court handed Shayna Bowman a 20‑month sentence suspended for 20 months, with 20 rehabilitation days and an alcohol‑abstinence requirement.
- Bowman allowed Rhys Farry, a man she knew had been drinking and taking cocaine and who supplied her drugs, to drive her three children home from a football tournament.
- Farry overtook traffic, ran a red light and struck a turning Dacia before hitting a tree; tests found 357 micrograms of cocaine metabolite BZE in his blood and he lacked a licence and insurance.
- Doctors told the court Bowman's two‑year‑old son is permanently paralysed from the waist down, while her five‑year‑old daughter and six‑year‑old son sustained serious fractures and other injuries.
- None of the children were in required car seats, two were airlifted to Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, and the family has adapted their home and is working with social and treatment services.