A drink driver who smashed into a rickshaw killing a Welsh woman had had three years added to his sentence. Luis Balcazar Soto was driving without a licence and twice the drink-drive limit when he hit the rickshaw throwing Sophie Strickland out of the vehicle.
The 31-year-old, who had been in London celebrating her birthday, died in the collision at Elephant and Castle. The rickshaw driver, Tanvir Ahmed, was seriously injured and left with life changing injuries.
Soto, now 25, was initially jailed for nine years and nine months for after he admitted causing death by dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving, acting in breach of a restraining order – by seeing his former partner – and breaching a suspended sentence. However this has now been increased after his sentence was referred to the Court of Appeal by the Solicitor General as Unduly Lenient.
