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| Jail for Shawbury man who killed Kidderminster girlfriend in crash | Jail for Shawbury man who killed Kidderminster girlfriend in crash |
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| Lily-May Vaughan was a passenger in the car driven by Logan Addison when it crashed in 2023 | Lily-May Vaughan was a passenger in the car driven by Logan Addison when it crashed in 2023 |
| A mother has told a court she will be always be "haunted" by her teenage daughter's death as her boyfriend was jailed for five and a half years for causing the death in a crash. | |
| Lily-May Vaughan, 17, from Kidderminster, was the passenger in a car driven by Logan Addison, 20, when it came off the road near Shawbury Heath in Shropshire on 4 February 2023. | Lily-May Vaughan, 17, from Kidderminster, was the passenger in a car driven by Logan Addison, 20, when it came off the road near Shawbury Heath in Shropshire on 4 February 2023. |
| In passing sentence at Shrewsbury Crown Court, Judge Deni Matthews said: "The people of this county need protection [from Addison]". | In passing sentence at Shrewsbury Crown Court, Judge Deni Matthews said: "The people of this county need protection [from Addison]". |
| Earlier Ms Vaughan's mother, Leanne Vaughan, told the court: "My whole world fell apart. It felt as if the ground beneath me vanished. I collapsed, the weight of it all crushing me." | Earlier Ms Vaughan's mother, Leanne Vaughan, told the court: "My whole world fell apart. It felt as if the ground beneath me vanished. I collapsed, the weight of it all crushing me." |
| During the trial, the court heard Lily-May died at the scene of the crash after the car driven by Addison hit an electricity pole and flipped on to its roof. | |
| One eye witness said she had seen his car pass in a "flash of a blur" and an investigator at the scene after the crash said she believed he had been travelling at more than the 60mph (96kph) speed limit on the country lane. | |
| Addressing him on Friday after he was previously found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, Judge Matthews said: "No-one can truly know how fast you were going but you were in excess of the speed limit." | |
| Leanne Vaughan said: "I am heartbroken that Mr Addison had so little respect for my daughter that he drove dangerously." | |
| Logan Addison was breaking the speed limit at the time of the crash, the judge said | |
| In her statement to the court, she added that her daughter was "a remarkable young lady who was so full of life, positive energy and happiness". | |
| She said when she received the news about the crash ""I screamed – a wild, frantic animal cry – for an hour" and Lily-May's death had "quite simply ruined" her life. | |
| "I will always be haunted by the fact that I was not there to hold Lily while she passed," she said. | |
| The primary school teacher added: "I have retreated from society, struggling to connect with the world outside." | |
| Leanne Vaughan said the loss of her daughter, Lily, "will be a life sentence for me" | |
| Leanne Vaughan's sister, Janine Newton, told the court: "I remember the fourth of February like it was yesterday." | |
| "I could hear Leanne sobbing and screaming. | |
| "It wasn't a normal cry, it was something I'd never heard before and it haunts me to this day." | |
| Leticia Evans, Lily-May's friend, said she was "the funniest, most entertaining person you'd ever meet". | |
| "The thought that someone could do something to our best friend doesn't feel real," she added. | |
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