A driver who caused a car crash in which two teenagers were killed while under the influence of cocaine has been jailed for 18 years.
Police received a report from the ambulance service of a three-vehicle collision on the A192 Hartford Bank, in Cramlington on Friday, December 22 last year.
It was reported that a Suzuki Vitara, a Range Rover Evoque and a Ford Focus had collided.
Emergency services attended and despite the efforts of paramedics and members of the public, 18-year-old Connor Lapworth, of Blyth, who was one of the passengers of the Suzuki, died at the scene.
Another passenger of the Suzuki, 15-year-old Corey Mavin, also of Blyth, suffered serious head injuries in the incident and was taken to hospital but died days later.
The driver of the Suzuki, Garry Robinson, 41, was subsequently arrested.
Investigations found he was twice above the legal limit for cocaine at the time of the collision and ten times over the legal limit for Benzoylecgonine (BZE), the cocaine breakdown product.
He was later charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
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