By Lucy Crossley. Jailed: Drink driver Luke Sykes, 31, admitted causing the death of young beautician Olivia Flanagan and was sentenced to eight years in prison. The parents of a young beautician killed by a drink driver in a head on crash have hit out after he was jailed for just eight years.
Teenager Olivia Flanagan was on her way home from her new job when she died in the collision with year-old Luke Sykes, who was over the drink drive limit. Sykes admitted causing death by dangerous driving, and was sentenced to eight years in prison, as well as being banned from getting behind the wheel for ten years. But the parents of year-old Olivia said the sentencing guidelines for dangerous drivers responsible for fatalities were 'wholly inadequate and not fit for purpose.
She was also planning to buy a new house with her boyfriend Mike Davies at the time of the tragedy. The sentence given today certainly does not reflect the gravity of the crime and the utter devastation caused to our family through the loss of Olivia. Olivia's father Martin described the moment he heard of her death.
He added: 'She was such a beautiful daughter, inside and out, who really, really grasped life. She was also studying two nights a week and doing beauty treatments in her own time. Guilty: Sykes, 31, of Coleorton, Leicestershire, was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court on Thursday after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing. The two of them had been together for two years and they were inseparable.
Olivia, who lived in Measham, Leicestershire, had an older brother Chris, 21, and a sister Katie, 23, who has a three-year-old son Ben. Her mother, Donna, said: 'Olivia was such a popular girl and was loved by so many people. He said if anyone was to blame, it should be "the drug pushers".
All three parents told Judge Reynolds how much they missed their sons and how their lives had been so drastically cut short, leaving black holes and empty voids within the respective families. On the evening of June 19, Bolger invited a friend of his, Thomas Ross, to join him for a drive to celebrate the new car. They went to Dollymount beach and stopped at the Pier House pub where Bolger had two or three pints of Budweiser.
While at the pub they met two girls with whom they developed a conversation. They all then went to the Coach House pub where Bolger had two more pints. While every one else was still at the pub, Bolger left it for a period of time. A short while after he returned they were joined by a friend of the girls he had first met at Pier House, increasing the number of the party to five.
They all went down for a drive down the pier in Howth. Sgt Brady said Bolger was "showing off" his new car and drove very fast. They stopped for a while then and Bolger produced a bag of cocaine which he offered to everyone in the group. When the others declined his offer, he took the drug himself. After the trial, the victim's mother Carol Duffy said: "He took the life of my son.
If he had confessed straight away I could have forgiven him, but now I can't. Now I don't give him a second thought. Mark Kane was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving.
He was also banned from driving for the next 10 years. The Golf then left the road and spun onto its roof. Previous ban. Dearden said there must be a consequence for a person who drinks, gets behind the wheel and then drives dangerously. Showing photographs of the mangled car after the crash, Dearden said the vehicle was clearly driven at an excessive speed.
Pilot was sentenced to eight years behind bars after pleading guilty last year to dangerous driving causing death and grievous bodily harm.
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