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NINE YEARS FOR DRUNK DRIVER WHO KILLED POPULAR MANCHESTER TAXI DRIVER


A drunk driver who hired a black Mer- cedes crashed it into a taxi, killing the driver and seriously injuring four friends celebrating the New Year. The MEN reports that Kelvin Todd, 34, was driving three times the speed limit when he hit 59-year- old Saleem Pacha’s taxi at about 3am on New Year’s Day in Fallowfield. He had also drunk ‘four dou- ble vodkas’. Four men, friends who had been bringing in the New Year together, were all seriously injured as passengers in the taxi. One remains in hospital after suffer-


ing a severe head injury. A judge said it was only the skill of doctors that saved his life. He is unable to com- municate and is being fed through a tube, and his family fear he may never fully recover. Now Todd has been jailed for nine years, after he pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and four counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving. Judge Richard Mansell QC told a public gallery full of family and friends of the victims that the sentence “must in no way be regarded


Kelvin Todd


as placing a value on the human lives taken or so devas- tatingly affected”. Manchester Crown Court heard that the four close friends had been to a party at one of their homes, before decid- ing to head out to a bar in Withington and ordering a taxi. Mr Pacha, a father of four and grandfa- ther of ten from Chorlton, was driv- ing ‘safely and


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carefully’ on Yew Tree Road when Todd approached in the hired Mercedes from the opposite direction. Todd later told police that he had hired the car over the New Year period to ‘look good’. When he approach- ed a bend in the road he was driving at at least 64mph, in a 20mph zone. The Mercedes C43 AMG ploughed into the Skoda Octavia taxi. Mr Pacha suffered fatal injuries, and was pronounced dead about an hour later in hospital. In a statement read to the court, Mr Pachas son Yasin


Saleem Pacha


paid tribute to a ‘gentle, kind, loving and generous man’ who was always will- ing to help others, and told of their devastation. Yasin said his family have ‘forgiven’ Todd, because ‘that’s what my father would have done’. Sentencing, Judge Mansell said Todd had displayed a ‘fla-


grant disregard for the rules of the road and for the safety of other road users’. The court heard that Todd, from Manch- ester has a ‘lengthy’ criminal record, com- mitting his first offence aged 13, including driving of- fences, robbery and possession of a firearm for which he received a sentence of imprisonment for public protection. Todd had only passed his driving test a few months prior to the fatal col- lision. Todd was banned from driving for nine and a half years, and must pass an ex- tended re-test.


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