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  "textContent": "To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideo\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\n**Two men inhaled laughing gas while travelling at speeds of up to 140mph in 30mph zones before a crash that killed a man on his way to work.**\n\nUways Hussain, 20, was driving a VW Golf GTI belonging to friend Usmon Mahmood, 23, when he ran a red light and crashed into another car, killing 50-year-old Sylvester Abayomi.\n\nUnknown to Hussain, his Apple watch called 999 automatically after detecting the collision and the pair were recorded talking about calling an Uber to leave the scene and reporting the car as stolen.\n\nJudge Nicholas Dean KC described the transcript of the call as ‘chilling’. He said: ‘It doesn’t reveal shock or concern for the victim.’\n\nMr Abayomi’s partner Denise Doyle told Manchester Crown Court: ‘Sylvester was simply on his way to work. An ordinary hard-working man.\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News** alerts the moment it happens.\n\n‘He should have returned home to me safely that day. Because of your actions he never did.’\n\nAddressing the defendants, she added: ‘You left Sylv to die alone. You did not show him even a shred of compassion or humanity.’\n\nTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideo\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\nSylvester Abayomi was killed in the collision (Picture: GMP/PA)\n\nSylvester Abayomi with his partner Denise (Picture: GMP/PA)\n\nScreengrab taken from mobile phone footage of passenger Usmon Mahmood with a balloon as he is being driven by Uways Hussain (Picture: GMP/PA)\n\nUways Hussain was sentenced to 11 years and eight months detention (Picture: GMP/PA)\n\nUsmon Mahmood was sentenced to 12 years and nine months (Picture: GMP/PA)\n\nHussain, who had indicated a guilty plea at magistrates court, was sentenced to 11 years and eight months detention after admitting causing death by dangerous driving, causing death by driving whilst uninsured, and failing to provide a specimen.\n\nMahmood, who initially told police he tried to warn Hussain about his driving before pleading guilty, was jailed for 12 years and nine months for aiding and abetting causing death by dangerous driving and aiding and abetting causing death by driving whilst uninsured.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the sentence was believed to be one of the highest for a death by dangerous driving offence involving a single fatality.\n\nJudge Nicholas Dean KC said: ‘It was a sustained, deliberate and escalating course of highly dangerous conduct over a prolonged period.\n\n‘I have seen CCTV images and video recordings on phones and they are terrifying.\n\n‘You drove at extreme speeds, seemingly up to very nearly 140mph, on roads which were by and large subject to 30mph speed limits, far, far in excess of any safe or lawful limit.’\n\nHe said during the course of driving both men handled mobile phones, recorded videos and inhaled nitrous oxide.\n\nCCTV of Uways Hussain with Usmon Mahmood clearing out their car after the crash (Picture: GMP/PA)\n\nVideos filmed by the defendants in the hours leading up to the crash showed Hussain driving at speeds of over 100mph with one hand on the wheel.\n\nThe collision happened at the junction of Green End Road and Kingsway in Manchester at 4.30am on March 9.\n\nRachel Shenton, prosecuting, said: ‘The Golf was driven by the first defendant, Uways Hussain. His friend Usmon Mahmood, the front seat passenger, was heard at times earlier on to be shouting encouragement.’\n\nThe judge said: ‘It was deliberate risk-taking, seemingly for the thrill of it.’\n\nMs Shenton said the men left the scene and ran from officers when they were tracked down, before being arrested.\n\nHussain, who had a previous conviction for drug-driving, was a law student who worked full-time at an airport, Neil Ronan, defending said.\n\nHandout photo issued by Greater Manchester Police of the crashed car driven by Uways Hussain (Picture: GMP/PA)\n\nClare Ashcroft, defending Mahmood, said he had been about to start an apprenticeship with Network Rail.\n\nShe said: ‘He is starting to understand the impact of his behaviour. In my submission he is remorseful.’\n\nSpeaking outside court, Detective Sergeant Thomas Johnson said: ‘Their actions that night were reckless, deliberate and ultimately devastating, which has resulted in one of the highest UK sentences for a death by dangerous driving involving a single fatality.\n\n‘Sylvester did nothing wrong. He entered a green light, expecting to safely continue on his journey and instead lost his life.’\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,** check our news page.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Men who inhaled laughing gas and hit 140mph before fatal crash caught by Apple watch"
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