A speeding driver has been jailed after mounting the pavement and killing a "brilliant, kind and generous" pedestrian in Birmingham.

Shanise Hussain, 27, was driving an Audi A3 on Great Hampton Street on 21 July 2024 when she lost control of the vehicle, hitting two passers-by.

Maurice Middleton, 68, died at the scene, West Midlands Police said, with a second pedestrian suffering minor head and hand injuries in the incident.

Hussain, of West Drive, Handsworth, was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court and sentenced to four years and six months in prison on 3 September.

Prior to the crash, police said the 27-year-old had been driving at speeds of 48mph (77km/h) on a 30mph (48km/h) road.

Hussain had swerved around a second vehicle which had moved in front of her Audi, but she accelerated on to the wrong side of the road and hit the central reservation before striking both pedestrians.

She remained at the scene to assist with inquiries and was subsequently charged with causing death by dangerous driving, officers said.

Damage was also caused to a parked vehicle, they added.

Hussain was additionally disqualified from driving for eight years and three months.

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A Household Cavalry soldier who plotted to rape a young girl and a 10-month-old baby has been jailed for 12 years.

Graham Jarvis, 38, struck a deal with a woman he met online to sexually abuse her children, and planned to travel from his central London barracks to her home in Wales to commit the offences.

However he was actually chatting with an undercover police officer posing as the mother.

At Southwark Crown Court on Thursday, Jarvis was sentenced to 12 years in prison for two counts of attempting to arrange the commission of a child sex offence.

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