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Manchester Evening News
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John Scheerhout

Police officer faces jail for dangerous driving on a 999 call which left boy, 15, paralysed

A police officer is facing a possible jail sentence after a jury convicted her of causing serious injury to a boy of 15 while driving dangerously on a 999 call.

PC Sarah De Meulemeester, 26, topped 61mph on 30mph limit roads and went the wrong way round a traffic island en route to an emergency in Stockport on Boxing Day, 2020.

Her patrol car crashed into Khia Whitehead, 15, on Garners Lane in Adswood, Stockport, leaving him catastrophic brain injuries.

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