Drink-drive rampage kills two

A drunken young driver with no car insurance has been sent to jail aftera night of shocking lawlessness resulted in the deaths of two innocent men.

Damien Dutton pleaded guilty to death by dangerous driving at Leeds Crown Court and was sentenced to an indeterminate time behind bars after the incident on November 30th 2005.

Already on bail for robbery, 22-year-old Dutton guzzled copious amounts of beer before leaving his bail hostel and stealing a 4x4 Nissan Terrano from a pub car park. Although driving with no motor insurance and well over the drink-drive limit, he careered through Leeds, pausing briefly to engage the services of a prostitute, before driving the wrong way around a roundabout and continuing the down a dual carriageway against oncoming traffic.

Motorists who swerved to avoid the drunken maniac rang the police and patrol cars were dispatched. They were unable to reach Duttonin time, however, and he continued his erratic journey, finally smashing into a Rover coming the other way.

The occupants of the Rover, Robert Frankenthal and Ryan Radford, were killed instantly but Dutton was uninjured. Police reached thescene seconds later and he told them, "I am not drunk. I have only had seven or eight pints."

As well as two counts of death by dangerous driving, Dutton also pleaded guilty to stealing a vehicle, driving while disqualified and driving without car insurance.

When he is finally released from prison, the convicted killer will have to re-take his driving test and, with his convictions, is unlikely to be able to benefit from the cheap prices offered by specialist young driver car insurance firms.

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