A police officer who left a schoolboy paralysed after crashing a patrol car into him has been jailed.
PC Sarah De Meulemeester, 26, ploughed her vehicle into 15-year-old Khia Whitbread after driving at speeds of up to 61mph on 30mph-limit roads, and also going the wrong way around a roundabout. A court heard she was trying to reach an emergency at the time in Stockport, Greater Manchester, on Boxing Day 2020 but collided with Khia.
The boy was left in a persistent vegetative state. He still needs 24-hour care from nurses. Khia was standing in the hatched area behind a roundabout with a friend when another police car, with its blue lights on, sped past on its way to the domestic incident, MirrorOnline reports.
