A speeding drink driver who killed three people when he was more than two-and-a-half times the legal limit has been jailed.
Carl Simpson, from County Durham, got into his car having just consumed several pints of lager and crashed into another car at 126mph on Romney Road, Lydd, in Kent. His two passengers, Jack Ryle-Thompsett, from Lydd, and Michael Phelan, from Hull, died at the scene, along with Sharon Haywood, from Ashford, who was driving the other car.
On Sunday 18 April 2021, Simpson, 36, had been drinking at a pub in Lydd before moving on to another pub in New Romney with Mr Phelan and Mr Ryle-Thompsett. After spending around two hours at this pub all three got into the car, a white BMW driven by Simpson.
