A mum has been left stunned after discovering that the drink and drug-fuelled driver who killed her partner will be moved to an open prison after just 14 months.
Carol King, 31, 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, who was known as Richie, was travelling in a Mercedes driven by his work colleague Mark Thompson.
Newcastle Crown Court heard how Thompson clocked more than 121mph before crashing the vehicle in August 2019. 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.
