A man who killed his work mate after ‘singing’ and ‘dancing’ at the wheel as he drove at twice the speed limit is now behind bars. A judge said Seif Khan’s bad driving led to the death of his 25-year-old friend Salih Mehmed, who'd moved to the UK from Bulgaria to start a new life.
Khan is said to have asked his other surviving passenger to lie to police and say he hadn’t been speeding. Minshull Street Crown Court heard how Khan, Mr Mehmed and another man were in a Seat Ibiza on Bolton Road, in Rochdale, after leaving work at the nearby Argos depot in Heywood.
Khan, 23, who passed his driving test just eight months before, was travelling at about double the 30mph speed limit on the road before he lost control and crashed into a tree. Prosecuting, Rob Hall said before the collision Khan was ‘singing and moving his shoulders in a sort of dance’.
Mr Mehmed, the front seat passenger, was rushed to hospital after the smash, but died the next day. Khan, of Ansdell Road, Rochdale, was jailed for three years and banned from driving for four-and-a-half years.
