Two jailed for boys' crash deaths

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Two people have been jailed for eight years each for causing the deaths of three boys in a car crash in Essex.

Christopher Kibble, 18, from Essex, was driving a car carrying three boys and all had fled without paying for a takeaway, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.

Sakir Olgun, 27, from the takeaway, was following the car when it crashed, near Halstead, killing Richard Warren, Christopher Jolley and Danny Archer.

Judge Charles Gratwicke told Olgun he would be deported on release.

Judge Gratwicke banned both men from driving for 10 years and told them they would have to resit their tests if they wanted their licences back.

Christopher Jolley, Danny Archer and Richard Warren all died

The court heard the three boys were in a Ford Escort which hit a tree when Olgun, a staff member at the kebab shop, chased them after they failed to pay for their £14 food order.

The collision happened on Sudbury Road in Halstead shortly after 0130 BST on Sunday 6 May 2007.

A VW Bora also left the road at the same location and struck a hedge.

Christopher Jolley, a student from Maplestead, Danny Archer from Sible Hedingham and Richard Warren from Halstead were all certified dead at the scene.

The Escort driver was 18-year-old unemployed Kibble from Hawkwood Road in Sible Hedingham.