A mum has opened up about the bittersweet moment she discovered she was pregnant just weeks after burying her partner.
Carol King, 30, found out she was having Richard Gray Jordan's second baby after he was killed in a car crash on the A19 near Houghton-le-Spring. The 33-year-old non-league footballer was travelling in a Mercedes driven by his work colleague Mark Thompson.
Drink and drug-fuelled Thompson clocked more than 121mph before crashing the vehicle in August 2019. Richard, who was known as Richie, was a rear seat passenger in the car and died in the collision. Thompson's front seat passenger, Lewis Atkinson, suffered a bleed on the brain.
