A primary school teacher, who had been advised by medical professionals he was not fit to drive, has been sentenced to seven years and four months in prison after causing the death of two people on the A66 in Cumbria.

He was also disqualified from driving for 16 years and 10 months and must take an extended retest to be eligible to drive again.

In the early evening of 13 February 2023 David Henderson, 45, was returning home from teaching at a school in Workington in his red Volkswagen Golf.

A man who caused the death of a woman in a high-speed crash has been jailed. 

Jack Cracknell, 22, was driving with four other passengers in his car in the early hours of the morning on 3 December 2022. 

Cracknell, of Faversham, Kent, reached speeds of 117mph as he drove along the New Dover Road in Canterbury, a road with a 40mph speed limit. 

As he approached a roundabout near the New Gate Inn pub, he hit a kerb, causing car to go into the air and roll over, before colliding with the pub building. 

Rosemary Ainslie, Head of the CPS Special Crime Division, said: “Following a review of the evidence provided by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), we have authorised a charge of causing death by careless driving against Metropolitan Police officer Christopher Harrison, 67.

“The charge follows the death of Helen Holland, 81, after she was involved in a collision with a police motorcyclist at the junction of West Cromwell Road and Warwick Road in Earl’s Court, west London, on 10 May 2023.