Ghetts pleads guilty to causing death by dangerous driving
Ghetts has pleaded guilty to causing the death of a university student while driving dangerously in an October hit-and-run.
The 41-year-old London rapper, real name Justin Clarke-Samuel, appeared via videolink from Pentonville prison to the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court, and admitted to causing the death by of 20-year-old Yubin Tamang, a Nepali student at London’s University of Roehampton, BBC News reports.
Clarke-Sameuel pleaded guilty to a second charge of dangerous driving in London on the day of the crash, 18th October. He admitted to driving his black BMW M5 on various London roads including in Camden, Islington and Hackney before the 11 30 PM BST collision at Redbridge Lane in Ilford. Tamang was hospitalised from his serious injuries and died two days later.
Clarke-Sameuel will be sentenced in a 12th February hearing, where he’ll be charged on two additional counts: one for causing death by careless driving while over the legal alcohol limit, another for dangerous driving. After the 18th October accident, Clarke-Sameuel’ breath test measured 119 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, according to BBC News.
In the videolink meeting, Judge Lucraft KC told Clarke-Samuel that the “the only sentence to be passed [on 12th February] is a custodial sentence”, the Guardian reports. The length of the jail sentence is still to be determined, as well as how long the immediate-effect driving ban will continue.
