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The second a serial drink driver who was serving his fourth disqualification from the roads was arrested after working over and killing a ‘vibrant and humorous’ five-year-old boy has been revealed for the primary time.
Darren Jacques’ appalling driving report was uncovered in courtroom as he was jailed for six years for inflicting the demise of Layton Darwood when he pulled over to purchase a bottle of beer.
His has convictions for 3 drink driving disqualifications, taking a automobile with out consent and he has now been banned from the roads for the fifth time after trying to cover his position within the incident by giving his boss’ title to police.
Layton was excited to be ‘on an journey’ with a gaggle of older ladies from his household to purchase sweets and cake from a store close to his dad and mom’ house in Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Banned driver Jacques, 42, had been illegally on the wheel of a piece flatbed truck towing a trailer with a digger on board and parked it on the pavement exterior the store. The courtroom heard he has 54 convictions on his report.
Darren Jacques spoke to police on the scene of the incident however initially gave officers his boss’ title and particulars
Jacques, 42, has 54 convictions on his report together with earlier drink driving offences
Layton was simply 5 years previous when he was killed after climbing on prime of the trailer
As a result of it was on the kerb, little Layton could not resist the temptation to climb onto the trailer, however his shoelaces turned tangled within the coupling between it and the truck.
Having purchased a big bottle of Stella Artois, Jacques bought again into the truck and drove away with out checking the place the teenager and the three different kids had been.
Newcastle Crown Court docket heard that Layton fell from the coupling and went beneath the trailer’s wheels.
Video footage launched by police at the moment as Jacques was jailed exhibits the second he admitted giving officers the mistaken title.
‘I did not imply to provide the runaround,’ he informed officers, including: ‘I simply panicked’.
He positioned his head in his palms as he was arrested on suspicion of inflicting critical damage – earlier than later being rearrested after Layton handed away.
Layton’s mom Stephany Richardson gave harrowing proof of arriving on the scene to search out paramedics attempting in useless to avoid wasting her little boy by massaging his coronary heart on the roadside.
As he lay dying, Jacques was attempting to keep away from accountability for the accident.
Jacques had stopped on the store to purchase a bottle of beer when the incident occurred
Jacques rang a colleague to ask for his boss Peter Shepherd’s full title, tackle and date of beginning after which gave them to the police
CCTV confirmed Jacques driving previous the store earlier than pulling as much as purchase beer
He rang a colleague to ask for his boss Peter Shepherd’s full title, tackle and date of beginning after which gave them to the police.
He solely admitted his true id – and revealed his previous driving report – when a police officer informed him a fingerprint scanner was being delivered to the scene.
Choose Robert Adams informed Jacques the offences had been aggravated as a result of: ‘You could have demonstrated a lax perspective to disqualified driving and also you aggravated issues additional by giving false particulars to the police.’
Layton was killed on August twenty fourth 2020 and simply 4 months earlier in April of that 12 months, Jacques had been caught driving while disqualified.
For that offence he was given a group order, which he ignored and ended up being despatched to jail for 11 weeks.
However it served as no deterrent and the development employee, who the courtroom heard drank 4 cans of beer day-after-day, bought straight again behind the wheel of his boss’s Ford Transit flatbed truck.
On the day of Layton’s demise he was towing a digger on a trailer, the load of the unit inflicting unsurvivable accidents.
Stephany Richardson learn out a press release in courtroom to inform of her heartbreak at her household’s loss and her fury at Jacques’ callous try to keep away from detection.
Dealing with Jacques, Ms Richardson mentioned: ‘The affect this has had can by no means be measured.
Jacques could possibly be seen in CCTV footage from police sporting a face masks across the backside half of his face
‘You took my vibrant, humorous, vigorous little boy and also you additionally stole the innocence of three younger ladies and destroyed a household.
‘On that day, Layton was excited to be happening his first journey. Getting cake and sweets was his favorite factor to do, however little did I realise this might be his final journey.
‘I needed to witness essentially the most horrific scene of emergency staff massaging his coronary heart on the roadside.
‘And whereas this was occurring you had been mendacity, attempting to cowl your tracks, giving false data and false names. Not as soon as did you ask how my son was throughout that point.
‘I might speak all day about how fantastic my little boy was however you do not should know something about him.
‘No justice will probably be served at the moment in my eyes as a result of I’m going through a lifetime with out him whereas attempting to carry collectively a household that you simply broke.’
Jacques was first disqualified in August 2006 for 12 months for drink driving.
In November the next 12 months he was banned once more for ignoring the driving ban, aggravated automobile taking, careless driving and failing to cease.
Then in September 2013 he was banned for 39 months, once more for consuming and driving.
On the time he killed Layton he was midway by way of a 42 month driving ban for his third drink driving conviction and had already been caught flouting that ban.
When he was caught in April 2020 driving while disqualified he lied on that event too, giving police his brother’s particulars.
Christopher Knox, for Jacques, of Penrith, Cumbria, mentioned if the offence had not resulted in Layton’s demise it might not have been a critical breach of highway guidelines, falling beneath the class of careless driving.
He mentioned Jacques had proven real regret for Layton’s demise and the courtroom heard he made a suicide try within the wake of the incident.
He took the teenager’s household by way of a trial, denying inflicting Layton’s demise by driving while disqualified, however was convicted by a jury in September.
Choose Robert Adams informed Jacques he had seen Layton and the three ladies clearly, jogging previous them as he went again to the truck after shopping for his beer.
Nonetheless earlier than he set off he didn’t make ample checks on the place the youngsters had been earlier than pulling away.
The decide informed Jacques: ‘Nothing Layton did was stunning. He was a five-year-old boy, this trailer was parked by you on the pavement and he climbed onto it. Sadly he was on the trailer, tousled in it if you drove ahead.’
He added: ‘You failed to hold out ample checks that will have been taken by a cautious and competent driver.
‘It resulted in you driving ahead with a baby caught within the coupling who then fell and suffered catastrophic accidents.’
He mentioned that being stopped for disqualified driving in April 2020 ought to have been sufficient to discourage him from getting behind the wheel once more, but it surely was not.
Choose Adams mentioned: ‘You expressed the view that this was a tragic accident however on the conviction of the jury it was your fault.’
He jailed father of 5 Jacques for six years and imposed a six 12 months driving ban.
