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| Driver jailed after car crash kills teenager Xana Doyle | |
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| A man who crashed a car while high on cocaine has been jailed for eight years for causing a teenager's death. | |
| Sakhawat Ali crashed on Usk Way, Newport, killing Xana Doyle, 19. | |
| Ali, 23, from Newport, admitted causing death by dangerous driving, drink driving and aggravated vehicle taking at Cardiff Crown Court. | |
| Shabaz Ali, 21, was jailed for seven years and three months for aggravated allowing to be carried involving a fatal accident. | |
| Sakhawat Ali was disqualified from driving for six years and Shabaz Ali for five. | |
| Judge Neil Bidder said both men shared the responsibility for causing Miss Doyle's death as they were on a "joint enterprise" to buy cocaine and cannabis while carrying her and another passenger, Liliana Breeds. | |
| He told the court Shabaz Ali took his mother's keys without her knowledge, while Sakhawat Ali drove the car. | |
| He was twice the drink-drive limit for alcohol and had taken cocaine. | |
| "There was no need for you to drive and you made a calculated decision to do so - you were showing off to the girls," the judge told Sakhawat Ali. | |
| Addressing Shabaz Ali, he added: "I have no doubt you encouraged him to drive." | |
| In a personal statement, Miss Doyle's mother Emma O'Donoghue said: "This nightmare is never going to end. This is my reality. I will never hear her laugh... Or see her beautiful smile ever again. | In a personal statement, Miss Doyle's mother Emma O'Donoghue said: "This nightmare is never going to end. This is my reality. I will never hear her laugh... Or see her beautiful smile ever again. |
| "I am not, and can never be, the same again. This pain is unbearable... Life seems so pointless." | "I am not, and can never be, the same again. This pain is unbearable... Life seems so pointless." |
| She described her daughter as a "bright, independent and extremely hard-working young lady" who was training to be a hairdresser. | She described her daughter as a "bright, independent and extremely hard-working young lady" who was training to be a hairdresser. |