Death crash driver jailed (From Western Telegraph)

Death crash driver jailed

A driver who killed a 19-year-old Llandysul waiter while trying to outrun the police was jailed for seven years last week.

David Llewellyn, aged 37, of Caerphilly, was over the drink drive level and had taken medication which meant he should not have been behind the wheel. He had also been smoking cannabis.

He was uninsured and had just taken to the road after serving a 12-month ban.

At Swansea Crown Court on Friday, he was banned from driving for 15 years for what Judge Gerald Price called a 'bad case with a number of aggravating features'.

Llewellyn pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.

He was on holiday with his partner when a row broke out. He drove off on his own, despite drinking cider all afternoon.

He called at a Spar Store in North Road, Cardigan, and shop assistant Mandy Davies thought he had been drinking and a few moments later flagged down a police car.

The police gave chase, but just before Llanarth, the police car took a bend, ran into a cloud of smoke and hit Llewellyn's car, which had just smashed into a Ford Fiesta being driven the other way by waiter Phillip Welsh of Llandysul. He died at the scene.

Mr Welsh's family packed the public gallery and wept as the case unfolded. Judge Price told Llewellyn: "In your desire to avoid being stopped by the police you drove in this highly dangerous fashion and took the life of a young man who had recently become a father. His child will never know him."