Drunk father and son kill woman after ploughing car through corn field
The father has three convictions for drink-driving, including one from May last year when he was banned from driving for 22 months.
An intoxicated father and son who drove a stolen £80,000 Land Rover through a corn field killed a woman while trying to evade police.
Footage shows Marcin Jablonski and his son Thomas Urbaniak swerving through the crops in Norfolk as they attempt to shake off police cars and a helicopter.
Jablonski, 44, was reportedly up to four times over the drink drive limit when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a Nissan Juke.
The driver of the Nissan, Aisatou Mballow Baldeh, suffered devastating injuries and was declared dead at the scene after her car flipped over onto its roof.
Jablonski and 26-year-old Urbaniak managed to avoid serious injury.
Their car had been stolen on August 11 last year, after Urbaniak took the keys during a burglary in Newmarket, Suffolk.
Two days after the break-in, they returned to pick up the car, and it was during their getaway that Jablonski drove into the corn field with his son in the passenger seat.
Jablonski admitted to causing death by dangerous driving, having no insurance, causing death while a disqualified driver, aggravated vehicle taking and criminal damage and was jailed for dangerous driving, reports the Mail Online.
Urbaniak pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicle taking, burglary and being in a vehicle driven by someone causing death by dangerous driving, receiving a two year jail term.
Sentencing, Judge Anthony Bate told Jablonski he had been ‘reckless’ during a ‘prolonged and consistent act of dangerous driving’.
‘You repeatedly evaded the best efforts of police to halt the vehicle and pressed on with its steering compromised, with tragic consequences,’ he added.
In a victim impact statement, Mrs Baldeh’s husband, Bocar, described his wife as a ‘beautiful and loving person inside and outside’
Detective Inspector David McCormack, of Norfolk Police, said: ‘They had every opportunity to stop and they chose not to – and that decision had devastating consequences and caused terrible suffering that was wholly avoidable.’
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