A 19-year-old man has been jailed for 11 years for killing four people including a toddler in a high-speed crash after a police chase through a built-up area of Sheffield.
Elliott Bower was driving a stolen Volkswagen Golf when it collided at 79mph with a people carrier in a residential street in November.
Adnan Ashraf Jarral, 35, his 16-month-old son, Muhammed Usman Bin Adnan, and the family’s friends Vlasta Dunova, 41, and her husband, Miroslav Duna, 50, died in the crash.
Jarral’s wife, Erica Kroscenova, 32, Duna and Dunova’s daughter Nikola Dunova, 22, and her three-year-old daughter, Livia Matova, were all seriously injured.
Bower, described by the judge as a “miserably wretched local criminal”, reached speeds of more than 100mph as he led police on a six-mile chase after taunting officers on social media with a picture captioned “fuck da police”.
Bower and his brother, Declan, were wanted by police at the time for questioning in relation to serious offences including attempted murder.
Richard Wright QC, prosecuting, said the pair, along with a third defendant, Mason Cartledge, now 18, were all engaged in a “pro-criminal lifestyle” and were “resolved not to surrender to custody”.
The judge, Jeremy Richardson QC, said the driving was “both chilling and breathtaking in its horror” and noted that none of the defendants had expressed any remorse.
Passing sentencing at Doncaster crown court on Monday, he said: “You have visited a catastrophe of the highest magnitude on two families.”
Elliot Bower was jailed for 11 and a half years after he admitted four counts of causing death by dangerous driving and three charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
