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| Cocaine driver Stephen Freye jailed for life for murder | Cocaine driver Stephen Freye jailed for life for murder |
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| A driver who snorted 70 lines of cocaine before he drove at and killed a pedestrian returning home from work has been jailed for life. | A driver who snorted 70 lines of cocaine before he drove at and killed a pedestrian returning home from work has been jailed for life. |
| Stephen Freye, 22, was convicted at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday of murdering chef Kyle Griffith, 25, as he walked through Cardiff Bay in January. | Stephen Freye, 22, was convicted at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday of murdering chef Kyle Griffith, 25, as he walked through Cardiff Bay in January. |
| Freye had told the court he was in a "drug-induced psychosis" when he deliberately hit the father-of-one. | Freye had told the court he was in a "drug-induced psychosis" when he deliberately hit the father-of-one. |
| The judge ordered him to serve a minimum term of 13 years. | The judge ordered him to serve a minimum term of 13 years. |
| During his trial, the court heard Freye had immediately confessed to police at the scene, saying: "I was told to kill a stranger." | |
| The prosecution described Mr Griffith as an "innocent" bystander, who was targeted because voices in Freye's head had told him his own family would die if he did not drive at the chef. | |
| Mr Griffith worked at Cardiff Arts Institute in the city centre and had a four-year-old daughter. | |
| Freye had denied murder but admitted manslaughter. | |
| He told the court: "I was in a drug induced psychosis. The coke was so irresistible that when I got it from the dealer I started snorting it from the bag on the way back. I was just totally a slave to it. | |
| "The voices had compete control of me. As soon as I saw him, the voices spoke." |