LONDON: An Indian-origin man has pleaded guilty to killing three teenage boys as they walked to a birthday party while he was drunk at the wheel and speeding.
Jaynesh Chudasama, 28, an employee of a car hire firm, from Hayes, West London, pleaded guilty to three counts of causing death by dangerous driving at the
Old Bailey on Monday.
He will be sentenced on 9 March.
Chudasama was more than two-and-a-half times the drunken-drive limit, had cannabis in his system and was driving at 71mph on a 60mph road when the crash happened on January 26, the prosecution told the court.
Prosecution said Chudasama tried to overtake another car but lost control and ploughed his black Audi A5 into the three boys who were walking on the pavement with five others to a nearby football club for the birthday party. His car mounted the pavement and mowed the boys down, carrying one boy on his bonnet before it smashed into a cemetery wall whilst another was sent flying into the cemetery.
The three boys Harry Rice, 17, George Wilkinson, 16 and Josh McGuinness, 16, were pronounced dead at the scene in front of their horrified teenage friends.
Chudasama and his passenger ran away but were pursued by two friends of the boys, one of whom struck Chudasama with a bottle to prevent him escaping, the court heard.
The maximum sentence for death by dangerous driving in the UK is 14 years.
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