Posted on 06/02/2026 2:43:31 AM PDT by dennisw
A car driver and passenger who inhaled nitrous oxide while travelling at speeds of up to 139mph before a fatal collision have been sentenced.
Uways 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, Manchester Crown Court heard today.
The court was shown footage of the collision, which happened at the junction of Green End Road and Kingsway in Manchester at 4.30am on March 9.
Mr Abayomi’s partner Denise Doyle told the court: “Sylvester was simply on his way to work. An ordinary hard-working man. He should have returned home to me safely that day. Because of your actions he never did.”
Addressing the defendants, she added: “You left Sylv to die alone. You did not show him even a shred of compassion or humanity.”
Hussain, 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.
Mahmood, who initially told police he tried to warn Hussain about his driving, was jailed for 12 years and nine months after he admitted aiding and abetting causing death by dangerous driving and aiding and abetting causing death by driving whilst uninsured.
Greater Manchester Police said the sentence was believed to be one of the highest for a death by dangerous driving offence involving a single fatality.
Judge Nicholas Dean KC said: “It was a sustained, deliberate and escalating course of highly dangerous conduct over a prolonged period.
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The muslim world is not sending their best (dumb n dumber)
Abayomi, Hussein and Mahmoud sound like proper British blokes. How far removed are they from the royal family?
I can’t find any info on the perp’s UK citizenship status.
Hmmmm...
Muslim scum..their names always sound like shxt dropping from Mohammad’s azz.
Unless I’m misreading something, how did the passenger get a longer sentence in jail than the driver? Why was the passenger charged? Why was there no charge for the illegal substance they were both on? What were their injuries in this 139 mph crash?
One of the Abdul’s worked at the Airport (I would assume Heathrow) and the other was “supposedly” just entering an apprentice program for a Railroad company. Leads one to think they could converse in English and had a history within the former Nation known as England so as to gain employment.
Get a load of the info here...
Wanna bet the perps were well known to LE?
Haven’t heard anything about that, either...
How dare they call them yobs! Only drunk white soccer hooligans can be called yobs.
Sure. Killed a guy, but the real crime was driving without insurance and failing to perform in a cup.
Proper English names...Soon they will be a King Uways 1.
HANG THEM SLOWLY!
Just as I expected when I read the names of the victim and his partner . She’s white and he was black .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyu4oOM8qQk
No English involved!
Good British Names.
Future Prime Minister right there.
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