A British Walton-le-Dale callous and unrepentant driver and child killer, Ashir Shahid, who ran down a pregnant English student, resulting in the death of her unborn child, has received JUST a 13-year prison sentence.
Renju Joseph, 31, was five months pregnant when she was struck by a vehicle operated at high velocity by Ashir Shahid, 20, while traversing a zebra crossing on Station Road in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire.
Ashir Shahid, residing on Windsor Road in Walton-le-Dale, confessed to causing death through dangerous driving and inflicting serious injury through dangerous driving.
His brother, Sam Shahid, received ONLY a three-year prison sentence at Preston Crown Court after pleading guilty to aiding an offender.
The brothers exhibited laughter and humour during their arrest and the subsequent investigation. Exhibiting arrogance even in their custody photographs.
The court heard that the Toyota Prius, operated by Ashir Shahid, was believed to be going at a speed between 58 mph and 71 mph (114 km/h) in a 30 mph zone under dark, wet weather.
Renju Joseph was transported to the hospital from the scene in the early evening of September 29 of the previous year, where an emergency caesarean section was performed in an effort to preserve the life of her son.
At approximately 19:50, she was walking slightly behind two female coworkers at the crosswalk as they proceeded to their night duty at a nearby care facility.
A motorist going in the opposite direction said that the Prius driver appeared to accelerate approximately 15 meters (49 feet) from the intersection.
The witness reported that the pregnant woman was struck and “propelled into the air for a considerable distance” before she fell and rolled onto his vehicle.
Video clips recovered from Renju Joseph’s mobile phone and that of his front seat passenger, his 17-year-old brother, showed them laughing and singing to music as the car was driven erratically and at speed.
Sam Shahid was also seen to put his feet and upper body out of the window while the driver removes both hands from the wheel at times and makes gun gestures.
Minutes afterwards, the Toyota was abandoned in a side street and covered with a sheet by the pair, before others moved the vehicle on to the back of flatbed truck and dumped it in Farnworth, Greater Manchester.
Ashir Shahid was arrested days later and made no comment when interviewed.
When his phone was examined it revealed that on the night it happened he made an online search for “charge for hit and run human”.
A video clip on his Snapchat account also showed him singing along to the Shaggy song It Wasn’t Me and laughing.
Voice recordings were also discovered of Sam Shahid rapping, in a bizarre Jamaican style accent even though he is clearly Asian, about the incident, including the lyrics: “She still not woke up, she still asleep.”
Ashir Shahid, of Windsor Road, Walton le Dale, pleaded guilty in June to causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving.
On Friday, he was also banned from driving for 15 years and one month, and must pass an extended retest.
Sentencing them, Judge Ian Unsworth KC said Ashir Shahid’s acceleration in the moments before the crash was “akin to what you may see on a Formula 1 race track”.
He said: “Olive’s life lasted five hours and 38 minutes. He did not live to see dawn. His mother never saw him alive.
“His life was snubbed out before it really began.”
The woman spent a fortnight in a coma before she learned of the death of her son.
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