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| Footballer admits causing deaths | Footballer admits causing deaths |
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| A 25-year-old footballer has pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of two children by dangerous driving. | A 25-year-old footballer has pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of two children by dangerous driving. |
| Former Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper Luke McCormick pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of Arron Peak, 10, and Ben Peak, eight, and driving with excess alcohol. | Former Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper Luke McCormick pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of Arron Peak, 10, and Ben Peak, eight, and driving with excess alcohol. |
| The brothers, from Partington, Manchester, died in a crash on the M6 in Staffordshire on 7 June. | |
| He entered his guilty pleas at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on Monday and will be sentenced later. | He entered his guilty pleas at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on Monday and will be sentenced later. |
| 'Prison inevitable' | 'Prison inevitable' |
| Judge Paul Glenn has told him a custodial sentence is inevitable. | Judge Paul Glenn has told him a custodial sentence is inevitable. |
| The court heard that when breathalysed McCormick was found to have 74 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath.Friends and relatives of the Peak family were at the court | |
| The brothers and their father Philip, 37, were in a Toyota Previa with friends, travelling to Silverstone racetrack, when the crash happened. | |
| Their car was involved in a collision with McCormick's Range Rover at about 0545 BST on the southbound carriageway of the motorway between junctions 15 and 16, near Keele services. | |
| Mr Peak, 37, who was driving, was seriously injured in the crash. | |
| McCormick, a former England youth international, had his contract with Plymouth cancelled "by mutual consent" a month after the crash. | |
| Friends and relatives of the boys were at the court to hear McCormick plead guilty. |